Finally found a Fabulous Toucan

Plans through Freddy are Very hit and miss .Having cancelled my night walk.in the rainforest I envisaged ,not making it there at all.However ,I insisted on swapping to a rainforest day trip,especially as Freddy told me best time to see the toucan and the Red eye frog is daytime...tho the frog will be asleep.
unfortunately ..so won't see the red eyes 🤦‍♀️
When I was shown the frog ,i was staggered by the perfect camoflague ...and ,the eye wasnt quite closed ,so i saw a glimpse of red eye and I guess I will have to accept that ,on this occasion.
En route to the rainforest ,we called at a coffee plantation ,where coffee is grown and produced by hand ..The owner is 94yrs old and looks amazing ...I think he is still working
He arrived years ago in the area and cleared the land by hand .He has 10 children .It was amazing to see and as a hardened tea drinker ,even I thought the black coffee tasted ok.!! We had plantin cake and chocolate snacks ...both v nice.
The rain forest was fabulous and the guides are fantastic at getting great photos using mobile phone combined binoculars.
So I got my toucan photo!! and I saw him hopping along a branch and flying away ....absolutely bucket list ticked !
..There were also sloths ,but less of them.
A line of leaf ants were absolutely fascinating.....dashing about in huge numbers carrying a leaf each......they were sooo industrious
The plants and waterfalls were also amazing
After lunch we moved on to walking over a couple of hanging bridges ,which were super wobbly ! ,to see a couple of fabulous 6 waterfalls.
Finally we went to a hot springs and geothermal mud pools .This reminded me of Rotarua in Nz
I decided not to participate but did put some mud of my face and hands ,skin did feel soft after I removed it .
The showers at this place had the most unecessary statues !
A really good day,probably better than just a night walk,where apparently youre at risk of venemous snakes being on the prowl..
The yellow snake we saw this morning ,jumps for your face. The poison is instant death...hence the saying ..."the kiss of death"Read more