Time passes so fast! New day! New year!
Early this morning, as the sun started to raise over the
horizon, we reached Curú Wildlife Refuge. The onset of scenery here is truly
breathtaking: an expansive sandy beach flanked by exposed ruddy rocked hills
topped with semi-deciduous forest. Upon disembarkation, we started exploring
the adjacent mangrove forest and tropical dry forest and as expected, we soon
found a great abundance of wildlife. Lucky day indeed! Because we found at
least two separate troops of white-faced capuchin monkeys, two troops of howler
monkeys, and two troops of white-nosed coatis. Aside from that, collared
peccaries, white-tailed deer, and crab-eating raccoons. For those of us
particularly interested in birds we had great views of many species of
flycatchers, wrens, parrots, and the national bird of Nicaragua – the beautiful
turquoise-browed motmot. What a fantastic day we had in Curú Wildlife Refuge!
