At our next stop, Chuck went on a hike with Alfredo (everyone called him Antonio Banderas) while Pat went birding. | The forest in Carara was dryer and more open than Manuel Antonio. |
But there was still lush foliage and many flowers. | Were these leaves alive? They were moving across the trail, but it was because they were being carried by leaf-cutter ants. |
Conrad led the birding walks, which were productive but very hard on the neck | Usually the birds were very hard to photograph, but this protonotary warbler obligingly posed on the trail. |
We walked to a lagoon where we found a caiman sunning himself. | At a later stop we found crocodiles on the river banks. |
There was also an iguana. | In Curu, Carla poked a termite nest. These nests are found all over the various forests. |
There were more scarlet macaws flying around. | Curu is classified a deciduous, or dry, forest, although it certainly looked green to a southern Californian. |