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I slept like a rock and intended to get up early to watch the docking procedure but didn't make it. We are going on a sky walk and Pura Vida botanical garden to day because people are saying that the town is a dump and the beach there is not very nice.
We headed out in one of three smaller busses and had room to spread out as there were extra seats. Our guide Jose was very knowledgeable when it came to plants and animals. The first thing we saw were a dozen or more of the biggest alligators I have ever seen. Maxine and several other people watched as two of them snuck up on a bird that was wading at the edge of the river. The bird saw them coming and flew off before they got to close so I pointed my camera at the biggest alligator there while Maxine continued to watch. I heard a bunch of people gasp and turned back a second too late to see one of the gators snap it up in one bite. I don't think he was going to share.
Wr drove up to the top of a mountain and started walking down a path and across several suspension bridges. Jose had a good eye and a good ear for finding and identifying all sorts I'd birds. We saw more leaf cutter ants on the move and found that they don't eat the leaves that they are carrying but take back to the nest where they use them to nourish a special type of fungus which then becomes their food.
We had lunch at the gardens and then toured the garden paths checking out hummingbirds, macaws, vultures and all sorts of plants and trees including cashew fruit which are pear shaped like a pear, each one having a single seed pod hanging off the bottom of it. Now wonder that are so expensive. We also saw a coati mundi at the top of a tree on our drive back and Maxine got the bus window open just in time for me to get a couple of shots of it as it ran down the trunk and off into the jungle. Jose tried all day to find us a
Green and black poison frog but now luck.
This turned out being the hottest day yet and we just hit the spa for a while, cleaned up, and went for supper (I had two deserts just to get the energy to get back to our cabin and crash.)
Ttfn.
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