The boat to Drake Bay leaving after dumping us and all our stuff on the wrong beach!

After a hot day, a boy can’t resist running out to feel the downpour

The beach nearest our AirBnB where we get picked up for all our tours

Little snorkelers – they took to it like pros!

The beach where we took our snorkel break

snorkel break

Xander determined to open a coconut –

..and – SUCCESS!

CLOSE encounters. eeks!

A school (bunch?) of dolphins swam up to our snorkel boat just after we got out of the water- and then stayed with the boat for 15 mintues

Corcovado Tapir Tour: Sloth through the tour guides telescope

the circled thing is a grasshopper that is, you’ll notice, as big as Xander’s hand!

spider moneky dangling

a Coatmundi – the Costa Rican equivalent of a raccoon

A strangler fig, which seem to be as common as birch trees in NH but waaaay cooler. You can climb up in them once they’ve properly strangled their host tree.

Whale bones from a whale that washed up on the beach two years ago – Daisy is standing next to the mandibles, the spinal column is between the kids

The Money Shot – Total Tapir

Xander took a night hike and got some fabulous pictures – this is a poision-dart frog

A glass frog – from the top.

The glass frog with the flashlight below so you see its transluscence and leg bones

Can you see the frog in this photo?? (it’s there!)

Xander just thought this guy was cute

Chillin’ Drake Bay style