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| this felt awesome |
More photos with some more tidbits. Our main reason for doing Costa Rica mid Canada summer, was for the opportunity to see the Green Sea Turtles lay their eggs in the middle of the night in Tortuguero. It's a very sanctioned tour in this area as it is protected and only during the night hours (paid and guided of course). You can only wear dark clothing, no camera gear, no lights. Just the guide with a red head lamp. They wait until the turtle is physically laying her eggs (50-100 eggs) before we can view, otherwsie we could spook her back into the ocean. Then we get to watch her cover the nest and go back into the water. It's a tremendous thing to watch and take about 2 hours for the whole process. It's hard to explain, but it's avery special. Pretty much most of the world's sea turtle come the 24 mile stretch of beach in Tortuguero to lay their eggs. It is possible to watch turtles lay eggs elsewhere, but it is also possible to get killed by the poachers who make a living killing turtles and taking their eggs for drugs, etc. So it's a true memory. I mean, you can only get there by boat, you have to pay to get on the island, the guides are certified and checked every time they arrive, and meanwhile on the other side of Costa Rica, people are killing people trying to guard the turtles in non sanctioned areas. Humans are truly the worst animal ever.
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| massive dragonfly on our might missions |
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| tracks from a sea turtle (likely the green sea turtle) on our beach. She did lay eggs here |
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| this weird flower that peel like a banana sparkler |
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| it did rain almost daily |
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| everything extra big in Costa Rica |
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| neat purple and black |
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| poison frog again |
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| buddy sun tanning with his prop gash |
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| on our canal canoe adventure we came to a really neat area where the lagoon meets the ocean |
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| and then I picked up random things |
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| back at it |
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| one of my many Brenna shots |
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| another guy sun bathing |
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| do these plants make sense? |
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| a spider |
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| another angle of the frog eater |
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| Brenna snapped this cool shot |
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| a caiman in the canals |
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| buddy doing the cool glass work |
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| ah hot springs |
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| more bridges |
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| no hesitation |
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| woohoo |
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| pumped |
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| ready for the next waterfall |
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| Brenna braves the frigid fresh water |
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| we did get a stranger to take this. I gotta say she took brutal photos but said this when I asked, "no problem, I have a Canon SLR too". Um thanks friend. Glad you can see ANY of the waterfall |
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| best done yourself |
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| this was a great adventure |
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| team adventure living it up |
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| no caption required |
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| on creepy crawly patrol |
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| buzz off vulture |
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| here comes the rain |
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| perfect surf in the background, waves would come in perfectly times 4-10ft with perfectly flat water in between. Only thing I felt I missed out on, but we just didn't have time to surf |
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| cops |
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| only photo from snorkelling. I got to swim with a spotted stingray at about 3ft for 30-40 seconds |
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| why can't we have this in Ontario? |
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| the blue macaw |
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| just a random shot from the main canal |
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| our friend is back. This guy was quite large and could hap-hazardly run across the water on command |
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