Casa Orquidea and Rio Rincon, Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica
After cruising all night from our last outing in Panama, we anchored in Golfo Dulce just in time for the sunrise. We cleared the immigration process and shortly after breakfast we arrived at Casa Orquideas, our first destination in Costa Rica.
We expected a great day at the botanical garden, where we would find native and introduced plant species. It was a cloudy day and it was very difficult to concentrate in the plants with many birds insisting on catching our attention. Chestnut-mandibled toucans, red-capped manakins, violet-crowned woodnymphs, green honeycreepers, scarlet-rumped tanagers and a white hawk were some species that distracted us.
At lunch we repositioned to Rincon, accompanied by Pantropical spotted dolphins. Some of us walked, others took the Zodiacs, and a few decided to kayak on the river, but all of us got wet… very wet. We had the chance to experience a tropical rain at its best in the estuary and we decided to watch the rain from a dry shelter: a rain forest bar. Some people decided to play soccer with a coconut under the downpour. Despite of the water, we saw snowy egrets, little-blue herons, cattle egrets, white ibis, spotted sandpipers, whimbrels, prothonotary warblers, green kingfishers and Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth.
The Sea Voyager awaited us with dry clothes, hot chocolate, tequila and dinner. The only thing we have to regret today is how much we missed the snorkeling equipment under the thick rain.
After cruising all night from our last outing in Panama, we anchored in Golfo Dulce just in time for the sunrise. We cleared the immigration process and shortly after breakfast we arrived at Casa Orquideas, our first destination in Costa Rica.
We expected a great day at the botanical garden, where we would find native and introduced plant species. It was a cloudy day and it was very difficult to concentrate in the plants with many birds insisting on catching our attention. Chestnut-mandibled toucans, red-capped manakins, violet-crowned woodnymphs, green honeycreepers, scarlet-rumped tanagers and a white hawk were some species that distracted us.
At lunch we repositioned to Rincon, accompanied by Pantropical spotted dolphins. Some of us walked, others took the Zodiacs, and a few decided to kayak on the river, but all of us got wet… very wet. We had the chance to experience a tropical rain at its best in the estuary and we decided to watch the rain from a dry shelter: a rain forest bar. Some people decided to play soccer with a coconut under the downpour. Despite of the water, we saw snowy egrets, little-blue herons, cattle egrets, white ibis, spotted sandpipers, whimbrels, prothonotary warblers, green kingfishers and Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth.
The Sea Voyager awaited us with dry clothes, hot chocolate, tequila and dinner. The only thing we have to regret today is how much we missed the snorkeling equipment under the thick rain.
