Costa Rica: Day 3

Day 3 was a hike at Carara National Park. Our guide was a retired/freelance man named Sergio. His is native CR, but he was to school in the States and had a good grasp on English.

We were picked up in a shuttle at our rental house at like 645am and drove, maybe 40 minutes to Carara.

It was humid, but I didn't get too hot. I wore a outer shell only (no liner) to save my skin from the bug bites, adventuring pants, and hiking boots. I was fine. Everyone else in the group was super hot.

Carara was pretty sweet. We were definitely in the "jungle." Thick canopy cover, lots of wildlife (of course), but there was a paved path. We saw: cutter ants, bats, millipedes, some smallish varment that I don't know what it is called, poison dart frogs, hummingbirds, about a million lizards/newts/iguanas, Macaws, and Debbie and I SWEAR we heard something growl at us - TWICE! If it was anything, it was probably an ocelot.

Here are some photos from the hike at Carara:

On our way home, we stopped at this restaurant for some typical CR food. It was excellent! It was open air, too. It was all pretty amazing to me.

We were all pretty tired when we got back. I took a nap, then went for another walk on the beach, then JK came over and made this spinahc and avocado soup with almonds, black bean-filled tortilla, and steamed vegetables: