Corcovado National Park and Caletas
Today we have arrived at one of our favorite destinations, Corocovado National Park. One of Costa Rica’s (and the World’s) most remote places. The San Pedrillo sector of Corocovado, is only accessible through the ocean, or by walking all day from the already remote area of Drake Bay.
Early in the morning we warmed up for our visit to Corcovado by visiting and having a great barbecue lunch on the beach of Caletas, on the buffer zone of Corcovado.
Some of us walked through the pristine rain forest and some went by horseback along the trails adjacent to the ocean. Later in the afternoon we re-positioned the National Geographic Sea Lion to the San Pedrillo sector of Corcovado, and on the way we were greeted by a mother humpback whale and its newly born pup, happily jumping out of the water.
We always look forward to our visits to Corocovado. During our visit today we had great sightings of the humpback whales and in the forest, troops of white- nosed coatis, mantled howler monkeys, white-faced capuchin monkeys. Birds like scarlet macaws, chestnut-mandible and fiery-billed aracari toucans among many others. We also got to see some of the elusive reptiles that inhabit the tropical forest, a small crocodile, and one of the most venomous pit-viper snakes in Costa Rica, the fer-de-lance snake.
It is always impressive and very rewarding to find these many creatures and so different from one another, like humpback whales in the ocean and fer-de-lance snakes in the adjacent forest. They are a good representation of the abundance and high diversity that the tropics offer.
It’s always a treat to visit Corcovado!
