Central American Adventure May 26-27

So, I decided to keep posting about our Central American adventure because it was so fun, Joe is out of town, and thanks to my delightful night working schedule there is absolutely no way I can fall asleep right now.



We spent a couple more days in Tortuguero, Costa Rica. We went on a zip line. Yee Haw!!

And we took an amazing boat tour of the canals in the national park in Tortuguero. We saw TONS of animals including: 3 types of monkeys (howler , white face, and spider monkeys), probably 1/2 dozen toucans, lots of other birds performing all kinds of mating rituals, an ant eater, and a sloth. Yes, I actually saw a sloth and it was just hanging out in the tree scratching his bum. Unfortunately I was not able to get a very good picture of that dang sloth. Here is my attempt.

One of the white face monkeys jumped out to a branch just away from the boat. Then he started throwing stuff at the boat. Then he jumped to another limb and grabbed a hornet's nest . . .

And he started eating it. Silly monkey.

On our way out of Tortuguero (about 45 min. into the 1 1/2 hour boat ride) our boat broke down, it started storming, the boat radio broke (and crocodiles and barracuda live in the water), and the one wooden paddle on the boat broke in half. It was the last boat out of Tortuguero and missing the boat meant missing our flights. Yikes.

Luckily after banging on the engine with who knows what, the boat started again and with only a few more sputtering moments made it back to the bus depot. Yea for hammers and stuff!!