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American Crocodile “Crocodile Bridge,” Tarcoles, Costa Rica |
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American Crocodile “Crocodile Bridge,” Tarcoles, Costa Rica |
American Crocodile on Wikipedia
Species Profile: Everglades National Park
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American Crocodile “Crocodile Bridge,” Tarcoles, Costa Rica |
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American Crocodile “Crocodile Bridge,” Tarcoles, Costa Rica |
American Crocodile on Wikipedia
Species Profile: Everglades National Park
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Nice Trees and Plants Along the River from mangroves to forests and plains Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Surrounded by Mountains and the Pacific Ocean Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
Tarcoles Teens Headed for School at 7:30 AM Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Welcome to Our Tour Boat Jungle Crocodile Safari Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
A Fishing Village, Thus Boats Everywhere! Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
Mangrove Trees Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
Lone Boat Anchored in Mouth of River That’s ocean waves just beyond the boat. Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
Why do I want to photograph every boat I see? Low tide on a tidal river close to its mouth Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
Other Tour Boats Going Out You have several choices, but ours is the best for birding. Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
Our Guide Explaining Something to John Like me, he talks with his hands 🙂 Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Wood Stork Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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White Ibis Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Yellow-crowned Night Heron Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Boat-billed Heron Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Roseate Spoonbill Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Panama Flycatcher Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Great Blue Heron Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Lesser Nighthawk Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Common Black Hawk Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Green Kingfisher female Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Yellow Warbler Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Mangrove Cuckoo Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Tropical Kingbird Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
This two days of about 20 bird photos are with thanks to the boat facility we used, Jungle Crocodile Safari, my favorite because they emphasis the birds rather than the crocs! I recommend them if in the Jaco area or west-central Costa Rica. And it was only 20 photos, but we saw more like 30 species! I simply cannot get a useable photo of all birds seen on any of my trips!
And tonight I will be setting up a new “Trip Gallery” on this Tarcoles River trip at:
2018-February-27–Tarcoles River
ICE Builds Handicap Accessible Trail at Manuel Antonio National Park.
Online article in English about a new elevated trail in the Mangrove area of park that is wheelchair accessible and all signs include braille for the blind. This is real progress for Costa Rica since most of our tourist activities are not handicap accessible.
For a year or more this is what was in the above spot:
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Last year in the same location. |
Then early in January these “tags” were painted with the bright turquoise at far right being where the current cartoon mice reside. I hope the other tags are overpainted too. I like the mice!
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Scenic Tarcoles River Tarcoles, Costa Rica |
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Scenic Tarcoles River near it’s Mouth into the Pacific Ocean Tarcoles, Costa Rica |
Jungle Crocodile Safari boat Tarcoles, Costa Rica |
American Crocodile Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Paper Wasp Nest Tarcoles River Costa Rica |
Hopefully you saw all the bird photos on the last two days’ posts! Also of interest may be:
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Bare-throated Tiger Heron Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Great Blue Heron Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Great Blue Heron in an Interesting Posture Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Cattle Egret Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Snowy Egret Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Yellow-crowned Night Heron Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Great Egret (left) and Whimbrel (right) Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Whimbrel Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Spotted Sandpiper Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Mangrove Swallow Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Groove-billed Ani
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Ringed Kingfisher Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Yellow Warbler, resident male with orange head Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Roseate Spoonbill Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Magnificent Frigate Bird female Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Ringed Kingfisher Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Great Egret Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
Oops! – Snowy Egret Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
Trip Photo Gallery: 2017-07-29- Tarcoles River
And the boat tour company we used: Jungle Crocodile Safari
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Brown Basilisk or Jesus Christ Lizard Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Brown Basilisk or Jesus Christ Lizard Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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American Crocodile Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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American Crocodile Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Green Iguana Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Spiny-tailed Iguana or Black Ctenaura Iguana Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
As always on this blog you can click a photo to see a larger version on black background.
Yeah, it is possible to sometimes see a monkey, sloth, coati, agouti, bat or other mammal, though no longer frequent on Tarcoles. People population growth reduces the animal population everywhere!
You can see all of the photos from this day trip at 2017-13-April Tarcoles Float Trip gallery
Or see my photo collection of OTHER WILDLIFE in Costa Rica or BIRDS separately
EASTER BUNNY?
And for Easter I have yet to see a rabbit here, though one website says there are 3 species of forest rabbits. The more common agouti twitches his nose like a rabbit, but he’s actually a rodent! 🙂
EASTER IS EITHER RELIGIOUS OR BEACH HOLIDAY FOR TICOS
Easter is purely a religious holiday here officially almost equal with Christmas in importance but purely for the focus on Jesus, not spoiling children with candy. (They spoil them other ways!) I’ll try to get some photos to share from the Easter Mass Processional tomorrow which is big deal everywhere. It used to be a “Dry Week” with no alcoholic beverages sold nation-wide, by law! Now it is up to local communities and is not enforced in the dry cantons.
Click this One tourist guide to being here for Easter (Semana Santa or Holy Week) with a list of other major holidays included. It is important to know before visiting here because many Ticos travel for many holidays, especially this week, and especially to the beaches, meaning the highways are literally bumper to bumper. It took us twice as long as usual to get to Tarcoles Thursday because of this. I would never go to a beach during Semana Santa (Holy Week). Think Spring Break!
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Great Egret Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Crested Caracara Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Yellow-headed Caracara juvenile Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Great Blue Heron with catfish Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Great Blue Heron finding fish Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Roseate Spoonbill Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Bare-throated Tiger-Heron Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Mangrove Swallow Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Tricolored Heron Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Green Kingfisher female Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Whimbrel Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Charlie & Mark on Jose’s Crocodile Tour Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
Tomorrow I will post some of the many birds and other animal photos made. And I think I will start creating galleries for each trip like this to also link to. Mark from Montana is visiting several towns in Costa Rica like Atenas as possible places for him to come live in retirement. We may have to build a wall around Costa Rica if these crazy Americans don’t stop trying to move in! 🙂 But in the meantime I’ll serve on the Welcoming Committee! 🙂