13:15 This morning we got up
early to cover as many trails as possible to make up for lost ground, this
meant we heard the jungle come alive with birds and other animals as the
sun rose as we made a few good sightings. Rather randomly 5 Common Peccaries ran
through the undergrowth not too far away from the path, including babies,
though I didn’t manage to get any photos due to the light levels beneath the
canopy. We passed by many
gigantic trees, saw some different gorgeous spiders and the odd Crested Guan
(mostly males).
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| Huge Roots (D.Philpot) |
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| Huge Dodgy Tree (D.Philpot) |
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| Fallen Goliath (D.Philpot) |
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| Tiny Hand Or Giant Leaf? (D.Philpot) |
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| Spider Wows (D.Philpot) |
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| Another Odd Spider (D.Philpot) |
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| Green Fruit (D.Philpot) |
I then decided using a piece of string
that we should take the longest trail, Sendero Corcovado, and that under my
estimate it would take around 3 or 4 hours to complete which wouldn’t be too
bad. Turns out, we spent 2 or 3 hours
sifting through a deep leaf layer on the path as we had already came across a snake
which shared our space (later we came across a couple more smaller ones
too). There was a huge monkey in
a tree on this trail too and we also saw all 4 species of monkey (Howler,
Capuchin, Squirrel and Spider) all on this one trail. We also saw more spiders, some insects and
took a nice ‘tuna break’ on a big log in the middle of nowhere.
The trail extended higher, sometimes we
even got lost (3 times) due to a fallen tree that had blocked the view of the
path. We heard what I am
convinced to be another large cat though this one was as loud as a car engine
(the German guys initial thought in the middle of nowhere) but this thing
purred and reminded me of the documentaries with a lion sitting among the grass
in the plains of Africa and so we moved swiftly on. It was so loud I cannot explain, I even half
believed it would follow us along the path… but luckily it did not, this Cat,
whatever it was, was only 10 or 20 metres away at most. When we eventually got back alive though very
thirsty, I worked out we had easily walked well over 6,000 metres in the 7
hours since we left, and that isn’t 6,000 on flat ground either. On the way down we stopped for a couple of interested bugs! (Photos below). A much needed shower and lunch break was then
taken.
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| Harlequin Beetle (D.Philpot) |
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| True Bug - Pokemon! (D.Philpot) |
In the afternoon we saw the same Cayman
out in the river, followed by a feeding Cayman out in the surf at Rio
Sirena. We spotted some more close
Coatis including one at sunset, a dead fish on the beach (unidentified), a
small Bark Scorpion, an ant carrying a leaf that was clearly too big for it to
handle, as well as a banana tree on the beach. I performed a ‘Jaguar Attack’ on
the German guy by jumping out on him from some bushes before we shortly
discovered that the “small spiders” we found on ourselves were actually
ticks. After dinner we left all of our
spare food (Comida gratis) before picking out a fair few ticks from certain
personal places you wouldn’t want them.
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| Don't Know What Fish This Is (D.Philpot) |
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| Beaming Sun (D.Philpot) |
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| Squirrel Monkey (D.Philpot) |
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| Any Carrying Way Too Much (D.Philpot) |
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| Jesus Christ Basilisk Lizard On Roots (D.Philpot) |
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Among The Grass Of Sirena Airstrip Followed By Sunset (D.Philpot) |
