Here is our last full day at Tortuguero. Yesterday, after returning from our boating tour down some beautiful canals, we ate lunch and went to the pool to practice our snorkeling skills. We looked pretty funny in our masks.
After dinner, we got our cameras ready and put on our mud (muck) boots, and set off for a twilight/pitch dark walk around the forest on the property with William. We saw and heard some amazing activity as the sun went down and the night pulled a dark curtain around us. Just at that time when the light left and the dark settled in, William told us to listen. No sounds. "The forest too is making a transition between who moves about in the day time and who owns the night." Soon, the night was full of sound: monkeys, frogs, cicadas, and things crashing about that we couldn't see...just feel.
In the morning we took an educational walk with William around the property. It was obvious that love was in the air as two tiger herons called, preened, hopped about in a definite attraction dance. After breakfast we kayaked for about two hours on a beautiful channel. It was quiet, and we saw many Caymen, turtles sunning, monkeys, butterflies, birds of all sorts and as we were about to finish...a medium sized crocodile that was very put out that we disturbed his sunbath.
We saw an educational film about the life of the greenbacked sea turtle--a beautiful and heart touching story. After that, we strolled along the beach as the Caribbean ocean lapped near our feet. Then we walked through the town of Tortuguero, bought a few things and returned to our lodge just in time to pick up two teachers and we were off to the neighboring school. There we spent a delightful hour teaching one-on-one. Students were learning to use the simple past tense of English. There was a story (in English) which students had to transform to the past tense. It was very fun to work with these kids. Then dinner, and tomorrow we will leave for Drake's Bay in the Corcovado area. After our flight it looks like we have the rest of the day to relax. Ahhhhh...
Here are a few pics from our last adventures:
Need a "refresher"..... the young folks traveling with you??? (sorry, forgetful in our "old age".....)...... :)
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