Rio Ricon & Casa Orqidea, Golfo Dulce
As you probably know rain forest is a kind of forest that receives a considerable amount of water throughout the year. This is a very broad definition but at least it let us see that there are two different major kinds of rain forest, the ones that you see in the temperate regions like the Olympic Rain Forest, and the ones that you see in the tropical regions of the planet like the tropical rain forest of Central America.
The latter is the one that we have been exploring for the last three days and boy I am happy that it is tropical and not temperate because today this tropical rain forest lived up to its name and we were witness to literary rain all day long since the morning. Thank goodness it is warm rain and didn’t affect our daily activities that much.
So this morning we were able to explore the mangrove forest by kayaks and Zodiacs under warm tropical rain to see some of its inhabitants such as brown pelicans, frigate birds, terms, common black hawk as well as learning about one of the most diverse ecosystems on our planet: the mangrove forest.
By the afternoon the ship had repositioned to a different point in the Golfo Dulce area where we able to go a shore and walk to a what would be better described as an open botanical garden known a Casa Orquidea, the “house of the orchid.” It is truly a tropical paradise full of colorful flowers and beautiful tropical plants, some of then from this region and some from other parts of our planet.
This is a place that not only attracts people to it but also a lot of the tropical birds as well, so we got to see some tanagers, hummingbirds, toucans and even some scarlet macaws flying over the garden.
As you probably know rain forest is a kind of forest that receives a considerable amount of water throughout the year. This is a very broad definition but at least it let us see that there are two different major kinds of rain forest, the ones that you see in the temperate regions like the Olympic Rain Forest, and the ones that you see in the tropical regions of the planet like the tropical rain forest of Central America.
The latter is the one that we have been exploring for the last three days and boy I am happy that it is tropical and not temperate because today this tropical rain forest lived up to its name and we were witness to literary rain all day long since the morning. Thank goodness it is warm rain and didn’t affect our daily activities that much.
So this morning we were able to explore the mangrove forest by kayaks and Zodiacs under warm tropical rain to see some of its inhabitants such as brown pelicans, frigate birds, terms, common black hawk as well as learning about one of the most diverse ecosystems on our planet: the mangrove forest.
By the afternoon the ship had repositioned to a different point in the Golfo Dulce area where we able to go a shore and walk to a what would be better described as an open botanical garden known a Casa Orquidea, the “house of the orchid.” It is truly a tropical paradise full of colorful flowers and beautiful tropical plants, some of then from this region and some from other parts of our planet.
This is a place that not only attracts people to it but also a lot of the tropical birds as well, so we got to see some tanagers, hummingbirds, toucans and even some scarlet macaws flying over the garden.
