Costa Rica Thurs 18 Nov 2010
Up early today, three public bus journeys, four bus stations and a taxi trip later, we arrive in Sarapiqui, not far from the Nicaragua border. We check into the Hotel Gavilan Lodge, I think we are in paradise.
After a steak and rice lunch, most of the group take a boat trip up the River Sarapiqui which runs right alongside the Lodge. The scenery is magnificent, there is no other word for it. Huge trees are lords of the river, the water is tumbling along at great speed broken only by the remains of great and small trees, lying in the torrent, victims of storms and torrential rains that wash them into the deluge. The wildlife is abundant, we see two varieties of swallows, toucans, herons, an ankinga, a woodpecker peering out of its hole in a tree, egrets, turkey vultures, an aracati, a ringed kingfisher and three macaws flying in formation over the trees.
Also a camen, quite large and threatening, and several green iguanas, including one bright orange specimen (the male changes colour in the mating season), over a metre long, chasing its brown female partner over branches and through the undergrowth. A spectacular sight.
We spend over two hours on this raging river, wonderful stuff.
Take Care everybody,
John
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