Costa Rica 2023

Today I met Mauro at 8 o'clock ⏰ in the morning at the entrance of Parque Manuel Antonio for a tour 🥾.

Mauro is a guide I found through Airbnb 🏩. He lives for his job and has been giving tours in the national park for 8 years.

Since I was the only guest, I was able to ask him all questions coming to my mind, which he was able to answer. His knowledge is very comprehensive.

Since I was traveling alone with him, his telescope 🔭 was "mine" 🤪, so to speak. We hiked through the jungle 🌴 for just over 2 hours, stopping again and again to observe and photograph 📷 all kinds of animals through the telescope.

What a great experience and what an enthusiastic nature watcher Mauro is. If you're here, get in touch with him, it's worth it: https://air.tl/Dz8vGdlz

I though it would be crowded but since it's the rainy season, there wasn't much going on. So tomorrow I'll go through the park alone again because I really enjoyed it 🕊️🦥🐒🦋🕸️🕷️🦗🐜🌸🌺🪴🌴Lue lisää

I hung out in my hammock on the beach 🏝️, peering 👀 into the sky again and watching the tons of vultures 🦅 circling above me at a considerable height.

I wondered where they would find carrion here on the beach for so many hungry beaks.

The jackdaws distracted me, I definitely think they are some kind of jackdaws, they are smart and steal things from tourists 🤣.

So there were six of the jackdaws and they were eyeing my hammock - they had never seen a world traveling hammock - when something flew over me with a long beak.

A toucan!

I went after him and thought the jackdaws would take care of the hammock.

Soon some other people on the beach saw me staring at trees and joined in.

How lucky that I love staring at the sky in my hammock! That's proof we need to hang more in hammocks!Lue lisää