Costa Rica, home of these two-toed sloths. I saw this one in Bogarin Trail.
Jason at the entrance to the Mistico Hanging Bridges Park.
These flowers had hairy white outsides. Not sure I've seen hairy flowers before.
Anothee of the mysterious Diquis spheres.
A big pollinator house. Anything with a hole in it to house bees, wasps and other insects that pollinate the plants and flowers here.
This plant seems to only let one small bit at a time bloom on the end.
Pink pointing every which way.
Like a layered yellow flower ball.
The leaf cutter ants have stripped theis huge leaf bare except for the main veins that were the center and structure holding the yummy bits together.
These roots of a tree reminded me of a tarantula spider.
Workers repairing one of the non-hanging bridges. Would OSHA let a man dangle upside down with a drill and no safety harness???
Looking up through the lacy canopy of a huge tree.
The colorful birds don't sit still for photos well.
A lizard in the leaf litter.
Look closely and you'll see a yellow-bellied snake I spotted slithering about head high. The guides had to look it up; apparently it's a bird eater of some sort.
Jason on one of the hanging bridges. They sway and wobble with every step!
The tube is a bee's nest. Tue bees produce honey, but not a lot of it. They're tiny and don;t sting.
The brown blob is a sloth in a tree. They may have cute faces, but they are pretty boring to watch.
Looking down from a hanging bridge, the top of a fern tree makes a wonderful design.
Jason at the waterfall in the Hanging Bridges park. You could see how it had carved curves in the rock.
The roots of this tree looked like an anteater.
Another lizard that stopped long enough for a photo.
Stepping stone across a little river in the park. Not many prople use this path.
Spikes on a tree next to the river. Wouldn't want to be a monkey trying to climb this one.
We saw these turkey-sized birds in the trees in several places where we stayed.
This is a turquoise-browed mot-mot, the national bird. The unusual end of its tail make it easily identifiable.
A nice view of the Arenal volcano from the park. The top is always hidden by clouds.
Karen at the Hanging Bridges Park sign, with Arenal volcano in the background.
Jason checking out a colorful ox cart, the national symbol of Costa Rica.
A cowboy moving some cattle across the highway to another field. We watched from our parking spot for the night.
That vine in the middle of the picture is actually a vine snake! This was the first thing we saw when we entered Bogarin Trail , a 30-acre natural wildlife preserve/refuge. We went looking for sloths.
The flora here is just gorgeous!
More crooked, pink, hairy flowers.
Looking down on a frilly blossom on a tree.
Layers of pink and red unfold.
This tiny reptile is a Strawberry Poison Dart Tree frog.
His skin holds a toxin that you dont want to ingest.
We spotted dozens of these cute colorful guys in the leaf litter in Bogarin Trail park.
More pink blooms about tohappen.
These flowers form cups that catch the rain and I saw hummingbirds sipping out of them.
Green seeds on orange stems. This color combo is one of my favorites.
This little bird ws pecking off the white kernels of this flower stem like they were corn on a cob.
These flowers was still tightly packed in a bunch that looked like slabs of seared meat. Made me hungry for BBQ.
Pretty yellow bird eating on a papaya the park set out to attract them..
The face of a sloth--what everyone loves about them. This is what Costa Rica is known for. This was one of several we saw in Bogarin Trail. A guide took this photo for me through his spotter scope lens.
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