Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
The second day of our voyage started with a humpback whale sighting off our starboard side. Anchored in San Josesito, our first landing in the Osa Peninsula, we disembarked via Zodiac, for a morning of activities, including interpretative hikes, snorkeling and even horseback riding along the coast.
The variety of activities brought sights of the rich biodiversity of Costa Rica suggesting that Christopher Columbus’ descriptive name “Costa Rica (Rich Coast),” referring to gold, actually describes the precious natural resources. Scarlet macaws, white-throated capuchin monkeys, were just several examples of what the rest of the day was to reveal to us!
San Josecito, a privately owned area on the Osa Peninsula, works as a buffer zone for one of the most premium and pristine national parks in Costa Rica, and one of my favorite places, Corcovado National Park, our afternoon destination. The relationship between these two forests enables Costa Rica to be very successful in the conservation of natural resources, joining the efforts of both the government and the private sector.
So after a fantastic lunch, the Sea Voyager repositioned to Corcovado National Park. At 42,469-hectares it protects about eight different habitats, and because of its size it’s the home of not just small and medium size mammals but also large size predators, like the jaguar, that depend on great expanses of land to be able to survive.
I consider it the mecca for nature lovers when visiting Costa Rica with more scarlet macaws soaring by, acrobatic Central American spider monkeys, coatis, and even the endemic Black-cheeked Ant-tanager as it followed a raid of army ants.
Hence, with the green flash of the sunset beckoning us to cocktail hour, we said goodbye to the Osa Peninsula, feeling blessed for the opportunity to see the wonders of nature in such a pristine state.
The second day of our voyage started with a humpback whale sighting off our starboard side. Anchored in San Josesito, our first landing in the Osa Peninsula, we disembarked via Zodiac, for a morning of activities, including interpretative hikes, snorkeling and even horseback riding along the coast.
The variety of activities brought sights of the rich biodiversity of Costa Rica suggesting that Christopher Columbus’ descriptive name “Costa Rica (Rich Coast),” referring to gold, actually describes the precious natural resources. Scarlet macaws, white-throated capuchin monkeys, were just several examples of what the rest of the day was to reveal to us!
San Josecito, a privately owned area on the Osa Peninsula, works as a buffer zone for one of the most premium and pristine national parks in Costa Rica, and one of my favorite places, Corcovado National Park, our afternoon destination. The relationship between these two forests enables Costa Rica to be very successful in the conservation of natural resources, joining the efforts of both the government and the private sector.
So after a fantastic lunch, the Sea Voyager repositioned to Corcovado National Park. At 42,469-hectares it protects about eight different habitats, and because of its size it’s the home of not just small and medium size mammals but also large size predators, like the jaguar, that depend on great expanses of land to be able to survive.
I consider it the mecca for nature lovers when visiting Costa Rica with more scarlet macaws soaring by, acrobatic Central American spider monkeys, coatis, and even the endemic Black-cheeked Ant-tanager as it followed a raid of army ants.
Hence, with the green flash of the sunset beckoning us to cocktail hour, we said goodbye to the Osa Peninsula, feeling blessed for the opportunity to see the wonders of nature in such a pristine state.
