We are up and ready at 6:15 am for the early morning tour with Yuri and Primo. It's very quiet. There is a $10.00 per person fee for Tortuguero National Park. We saw monkeys, heron, caiman, turtle, boa, iguana, blue morpho butterfly, yellow billed toucan, white egret.
Back for breakfast at 9:00 am. Yummy pancakes, scrambled eggs with onion and gallo pinto, wheat toast. Fresh fruit-pineapple, watermelon, cantaloupe, guava. Juice and coffee. Time to explore the grounds.
Back at the lodge for lunch at 1:00 pm. There's steak, rice with vegetables, cold pasta/shells. Juice, water....... Coconut flakes in chocolate honey sauce. We decide to spend the afternoon at the pool where we refresh and relax.
At 5:30 pm we have been told to be at the pool area for something special. Yuri shows a group of us the famous rana de ojos rojos/red eyed/gaudy leaf frog that is symbolic of Costa Rica. Vivid colors.
Dinner is chicken, carrots and cauliflower, small skin on boiled potatoes. Dessert is flan. While we have been here at Laguna Lodge the food has been outstanding. Delicious.
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| White egret |
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| Yellow and orange snake |
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Yellow billed toucan
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| Back to the lodge |
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| Green iguana in tree |
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| Howler monkey in tree |
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| Green iguana on the lodge grounds |
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At 10:15 am there is another boat excursion through the canals. This time we see monkeys, turtles, birds. Our driver is Primo.
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| Boats ready for another canal tour |
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| Looks like a bare-throated tiger heron |
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| Howler monkey |
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| Turtle swimming |
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| Caiman |
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| Snake in tree |
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| Caiman |
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| Turtle |
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| Rana Venenosa/poison-arrow frog/blue jeans dart frog |
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| Howler monkeys |
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| Turtles |
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| Emerald basilisk |
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| Maybe common black hawk |
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| Anhinga |
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| Tortuguero canal-postcard |
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| Tortuguero National Park-postcard |
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| Think this is a blue-gray tanager |
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| Tree with nests and several black/yellow tail birds known as oropendolas |
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| Gaudy leaf frog |
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| Rana de Ojos Rojos/red eyed leaf frog |
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| Red eyed leaf frogs and poison-arrow frog |
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