Limon 4th June - Tortuguera Canals
This visit to the Canals is a repeat of the trip we did last year, when we visited the Caribbean. We were looking forward to spotting wildlife and we certainly were not disappointed. No sooner had we started the boat trip we encountered a two toed sloth at close quarters,
Following this we spotted many different types of birds including heron, egret, kingfisher, and even a toucan.
We then spotted a male Jesus Christ lizard (the fastest lizard in the world that can walk on water) and his girlfriend following which we visited a tree, which this year only had four long nosed bats on it.
The highlight of the canal trip was spotting three of the four variety of monkey found in Costa Rica. They were the Spider Monkey, the Howler Monkey and the “chip” something monkey, which was smaller monkey and had a white face - it was known as the local trouble maker. Unfortunately the monkeys moved so fast through the trees that Geoffrey was unable to capture them on camera, other than a silhouette of a spider monkey high up in the tree.
This was a long and tiring, but exceptionally good day. Thank goodness we have a day at sea tomorrow, to recover.
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