Corcovado National Park, Osa Peninsula
Well, it is our second day of the trip and this is as good as it gets!
Today we woke up anchored in front of the Corcovado National Park, which is considered one of the most pristine and wild places in Costa Rica and in all of Central America. This is one of those tropical forests that you can walk for three days a not see a single thing moving on the forest or walk fifteen feet into a trail and be face to face with a jaguar and have the experience of your lifetime.
After breakfast we sorted ourselves onto different trails to explore this unique place; some of us went on a walk to a waterfall, others on an easy stroll around the park station, others headed on to a long exercise trail, while the rest went on a flat walk. And as we were saying, this is IT! We not only got to see one of the best pieces of tropical rainforest in there is, but we had a chance to see scarlet macaws, Central American agouties, chestnut mandible toucans, boat bill herons, ring kingfisher and two animals that are used as indicators of a healthy tropical forest: believe or not, we got to see spider monkeys, and the white lipped peccaries. These two animals only survive in large pieces of healthy primary forest and today we got really close lots of them, especially the peccaries, as you can see in the picture.
After our exiting morning in the park we came back on board the ship to have lunch while the Capitan repositioned the ship to the mouth of the Agujitas River. We explored the river during the afternoon by Zodiacs and kayaks. We had a great birding afternoon and saw yellow crown night herons, green kingfisher, gray-headed tanager, black-throated trogon, spotted sandpiper and many others.
Well, it is our second day of the trip and this is as good as it gets!
Today we woke up anchored in front of the Corcovado National Park, which is considered one of the most pristine and wild places in Costa Rica and in all of Central America. This is one of those tropical forests that you can walk for three days a not see a single thing moving on the forest or walk fifteen feet into a trail and be face to face with a jaguar and have the experience of your lifetime.
After breakfast we sorted ourselves onto different trails to explore this unique place; some of us went on a walk to a waterfall, others on an easy stroll around the park station, others headed on to a long exercise trail, while the rest went on a flat walk. And as we were saying, this is IT! We not only got to see one of the best pieces of tropical rainforest in there is, but we had a chance to see scarlet macaws, Central American agouties, chestnut mandible toucans, boat bill herons, ring kingfisher and two animals that are used as indicators of a healthy tropical forest: believe or not, we got to see spider monkeys, and the white lipped peccaries. These two animals only survive in large pieces of healthy primary forest and today we got really close lots of them, especially the peccaries, as you can see in the picture.
After our exiting morning in the park we came back on board the ship to have lunch while the Capitan repositioned the ship to the mouth of the Agujitas River. We explored the river during the afternoon by Zodiacs and kayaks. We had a great birding afternoon and saw yellow crown night herons, green kingfisher, gray-headed tanager, black-throated trogon, spotted sandpiper and many others.
