Today we enjoyed a leisurely morning as we had nothing set to a schedule. We decided to hang out at our resort and actually get some time at the pools and waterslides during the daylight hours. Before heading to the pools we walked along the little nature area that the hotel has and checked out the butterflies, aunts, crocodile, turtles. It was much more impressive than I had imagined and I’m glad we did that together.
Iguana
More leaf carrying ants
A couple kids finally tried the slide into the cold (i.e. normal) temperature pool. It was one and done for these two.
While sitting pool side a large iguana meandered up next to me. Totally took me by surprise!
We decided to eat lunch at the hotel bar.
The girls ordered themselves a smoothie
I love that many places in Costa Rica served their fries with both ketchup and mayonnaise – I love me some fry sauce!
I thought this was a fun picture of some of the wild swimwear we spotted today.
We had a little visitor during lunch
This was the only day it rained on us, but thankfully it let up in time for us to go to the Bogarin Trail and go on a nature walk. We learned about this trail on TripAdvisor and the creator of the trail, Giovanni just so happened to be our guide today. He spent the last 18 years creating an environment that would entice some of Costa Rica’s most incredible creatures to call it home. Giovanni was a wealth of knowledge and it was so interesting to listen to his story. He was living in Costa Rica back in the 60s when the volcano erupted and his family lost everything. They moved away but when he was a young adult he decided to come back to the area and told his father he would make the volcano pay, and he created this area that we got to enjoy today.
This “blue jean” frog is poisonous
Being the expert, Giovanni was able to locate three different sloths for us.
Giovanni had a scope device with him that allowed us to take some cool photos and see the sloths up close. So fascinating!
The male sloths have this bright patch on their backs
We also saw lots of different birds and what Giovanni referred to as a rat. But it is the largest “rat” I have ever seen in my life. It looked more like a large possum (sadly no picture).
This is a huge beehive covering the outside of this tree!
Giovanni tried REALLY hard to get this turtle come out of its shell for us
Abigail had the idea of going to the grocery store and picking up a bunch of random food for dinner. We did just that and enjoyed a smorgasbord of chips and salsa, Oreos, baguettes and donuts on our patio.
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