• Costa Rica

    Rio Celeste Waterfalls

    January 13, 2020 /

    We were up at dawn (almost) on Saturday morning for a 2.5hr drive to Tenorio Volcano National Park to hike to the Rio Celeste Waterfall. The pool at the base of the waterfall as well as the river have aluminosilicate particles in the water which helps to create an optical phenomenon called Mie Scattering (Google it) ...

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    Monkeys & Mangroves

    January 12, 2020 /

    On my walk into "town" on Friday - came across these Howler Monkeys ... not very good footage of monkeys as they were high up in trees. Videos are more to give you an idea of the noise they make (somewhat startling when you're taking a short cut through shoulder-height grass). Hard to believe that such a racket can come from such small monkeys.

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    Arriving in Tamarindo

    January 7, 2020 /

    Arrived in Tamarindo, Costa Rica at our second Airbnb on Sunday. Travelling from the airport at Liberia to the coast, I commented to Jarrah that the vegetation looked very similar to the eastern Transvaal in South Africa (where the game parks are). So not too much of a surprise to learn that there is an African Safari Adventure park here with giraffe, oryx, wildebees and ostrich! No mention of the Big 5 though :)

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