Manuel Antonio National Park & Curu Wildlife Refuge
Our expedition took us today in two opposite environments from morning to afternoon.
After breakfast, the Sea Voyager had us anchored in front of a beautiful national park, the most visited park of Costa Rica and a perfect site for a close up to some of the most entertaining mammals. Two different options were offered to explore the park, Cathedral Point Trail for those interested in exercising the lower part of their bodies and Sloth Valley for those interested in photography and nature. However both trails allowed everyone to see white faced capuchin monkeys, Hoffmann’s and three toad sloths, white nosed coatis, agoutis and the endemic Red backed squirrel monkeys, an active specie found only in central and southern pacific Costa Rica and the west of Panama which means that it is a pretty unique sighting.
There was time for a swim at the pristine warm waters of the park just before our sail up to the north pacific of Costa Rica.
In the afternoon another educational lecture was given by David Clapp, our guest lecturer from Smithsonian. Pantropical spotted dolphins joined us for a while and even when we were still on the same coast, the change of landscape opened a new scenery in the afternoon: the tropical dry forest This deciduous area encloses a microclimate offering a habitat to non seen species up to today such us magpie jay, long tailed manakin, rufous naped wren, crested caracara as well as other species that are always an attraction such as scarlet macaws and howler monkeys. Our good-bye to Panama and Costa Rica was given by the flight of the colorful roseate spoonbills and white ibis just when the sunset illuminated the sky.
Our expedition took us today in two opposite environments from morning to afternoon.
After breakfast, the Sea Voyager had us anchored in front of a beautiful national park, the most visited park of Costa Rica and a perfect site for a close up to some of the most entertaining mammals. Two different options were offered to explore the park, Cathedral Point Trail for those interested in exercising the lower part of their bodies and Sloth Valley for those interested in photography and nature. However both trails allowed everyone to see white faced capuchin monkeys, Hoffmann’s and three toad sloths, white nosed coatis, agoutis and the endemic Red backed squirrel monkeys, an active specie found only in central and southern pacific Costa Rica and the west of Panama which means that it is a pretty unique sighting.
There was time for a swim at the pristine warm waters of the park just before our sail up to the north pacific of Costa Rica.
In the afternoon another educational lecture was given by David Clapp, our guest lecturer from Smithsonian. Pantropical spotted dolphins joined us for a while and even when we were still on the same coast, the change of landscape opened a new scenery in the afternoon: the tropical dry forest This deciduous area encloses a microclimate offering a habitat to non seen species up to today such us magpie jay, long tailed manakin, rufous naped wren, crested caracara as well as other species that are always an attraction such as scarlet macaws and howler monkeys. Our good-bye to Panama and Costa Rica was given by the flight of the colorful roseate spoonbills and white ibis just when the sunset illuminated the sky.
