Corcovado National Park, Osa Peninsula
A wonderful sunrise only predicted the wonders that awaited us. We disembarked at low tide at the station of San Pedrillo in Corcovado National Park for a choice of three different walks. The waterfall walkers went for a dip in the river, the ridge walkers took the longest hike and the flat walk went parallel to the coast. We had great sightings of monkeys, including the Central American spider monkey which completes all four species of primates in Costa Rica seen this week. A tamandua anteater was exceptionally active at daylight, and the slaty tailed trogon gave a wonderful display of its behavior, foraging for fruits in flight and perching on another tree, and therefore providing the great service of seed dispersal to the tree by regurgitating the seeds away from the parent tree.
The majestic trees found in the Osa Peninsula are breathtaking. The height of the forest is as amazing as its diversity. The certainty of the presence of those Neotropical mammals that we admire for their unbelievable strength and elusiveness, the isolation from civilization as we know it and the size of the protected area, conceive an equation that escorts us on a spiritual humbling experience with one of Mother Nature’s favorites.
The National Park system in Costa Rica is focusing its latest conservation efforts in the protection of the Osa Peninsula, for the importance of its environments, the weakness of its boundaries and the needs of the surrounding communities.
A wonderful sunrise only predicted the wonders that awaited us. We disembarked at low tide at the station of San Pedrillo in Corcovado National Park for a choice of three different walks. The waterfall walkers went for a dip in the river, the ridge walkers took the longest hike and the flat walk went parallel to the coast. We had great sightings of monkeys, including the Central American spider monkey which completes all four species of primates in Costa Rica seen this week. A tamandua anteater was exceptionally active at daylight, and the slaty tailed trogon gave a wonderful display of its behavior, foraging for fruits in flight and perching on another tree, and therefore providing the great service of seed dispersal to the tree by regurgitating the seeds away from the parent tree.
The majestic trees found in the Osa Peninsula are breathtaking. The height of the forest is as amazing as its diversity. The certainty of the presence of those Neotropical mammals that we admire for their unbelievable strength and elusiveness, the isolation from civilization as we know it and the size of the protected area, conceive an equation that escorts us on a spiritual humbling experience with one of Mother Nature’s favorites.
The National Park system in Costa Rica is focusing its latest conservation efforts in the protection of the Osa Peninsula, for the importance of its environments, the weakness of its boundaries and the needs of the surrounding communities.
