16:00 Today was a 05:20am start, we had a pack lunch breakfast in our room, packed and walked to the corner to get our “bus.” We climbed into the back of a rickety old ‘slave truck,’ which travelled for 2hrs 20mins, like sitting on a powerful washing machine, over streams, steep/narrow areas and bounced along what I actually thought was a pretty high quality road seeming we were in such a remote place. There was even a school near Carate which was highly surprising, and we also came across one scared Coati that darted off into the bushes as we approached. During a snack break we got to see a fair few more birds whilst waiting to head once again.
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| All Aboard The Bus (D.Philpot) |
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| Osa Reptiles (D.Philpot) |
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| Osa Mammals (D.Philpot) |
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| Costa Rica Biodiversity (D.Philpot) |
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| Osa Biodiversity (D.Philpot) |
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| Osa Specis (D.Philpot) |
The “End of
the road” as the books put it is kind of civilised, there is an airstrip for
rich and lazy people, an “information place” that sells drinks and has a few,
but very expensive, places to stay, though doesn’t let you use the
bathrooms. We therefore chose the
obvious choice... to spend a night camped out on the beach, not too bad
considering there were many Macaws, say over 20 easily, in the area and with an
incredible view either way of a very long tropical beach or ahead to the blue
waves of the mighty Pacific Ocean (See Video 76).
So here we lay
watching 50 odd tourists walking by (not good!) at which point the German guy
has cracked the best joke – “There are too many people today, I think the
crocodile won’t be hungry tomorrow.”
I got some good photos around our camp-site:
I got some good photos around our camp-site:
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| Pretty Good Camp-Site (D.Philpot) |
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| Going Coco Loco (D.Philpot) |
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| Scarlet Macaw, My Best Parrot Photo (D.Philpot) |
21:00 The rest
of our time was spent opening and drinking coconuts as well as preparing for
the mighty 7 hour hike with all our food and water tomorrow. It turns out high tide won’t be so high which
is good for us sleeping in the tent, though watching the waves and the
incredible sunset in this spot was breath-taking. Just about to go to sleep early, a guy was
walking slowly down the beach with a torch (flashlight) and would respond to us
occasionally shining our lights and the German guy cracked another great quote
– “Maybe it’s a really powerful torch (flashlight) inside a Jaguar,” hahahaha!
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| Pura Vida! Living A Good Life (D.Philpot) |