• Costa Rica

    Rio Celeste Waterfalls

    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) ...

  • Costa Rica

    Monkeys & Mangroves

    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.