Corcovado National Park & Marenco Biological Research Station, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
Our second day of the trip and things just keep getting better as our expedition unfolds. But let’s start at the beginning...
This morning we awoke at anchor right in front of the Corcovado National Park in the Osa Peninsula. The park and the peninsula itself are one of the most pristine tropical rain forests still standing in Central America. This is because it is being protected by National Parks such as Corcovado and private preserves, and because of its inaccessibility.
There is not a road leading to the places where we were today, so you can only get here by boat, small plane, or long hike with all your equipment on your back. So, not many people get to this part of the country, making it one of this most diverse and wild places of this region. Today we became living witnesses of this fact.
Right after breakfast we splintered in to different trails in the Corcovado forest where we got great looks of spider monkeys, howler monkeys, agoutis, white nosed coatis, toucans and many other things in this incredibly tall tropical forest.
After our morning hikes, the Capitan repositioned the ship so we could explore other parts of this incredible place. We had some more hikes, and some of us the more daring ones were on horseback when we got our first glimpse of scarlet macaws and a close encounter with a couple of white throated capuchin monkeys.
After our busy day exploring the jungle, and once some of us were back on board while others were still in the woods, we were surprised by two humpback whales swimming by. It appeared to be a mother with her calf.
Not bad for the second day of our excursion, huh?
Our second day of the trip and things just keep getting better as our expedition unfolds. But let’s start at the beginning...
This morning we awoke at anchor right in front of the Corcovado National Park in the Osa Peninsula. The park and the peninsula itself are one of the most pristine tropical rain forests still standing in Central America. This is because it is being protected by National Parks such as Corcovado and private preserves, and because of its inaccessibility.
There is not a road leading to the places where we were today, so you can only get here by boat, small plane, or long hike with all your equipment on your back. So, not many people get to this part of the country, making it one of this most diverse and wild places of this region. Today we became living witnesses of this fact.
Right after breakfast we splintered in to different trails in the Corcovado forest where we got great looks of spider monkeys, howler monkeys, agoutis, white nosed coatis, toucans and many other things in this incredibly tall tropical forest.
After our morning hikes, the Capitan repositioned the ship so we could explore other parts of this incredible place. We had some more hikes, and some of us the more daring ones were on horseback when we got our first glimpse of scarlet macaws and a close encounter with a couple of white throated capuchin monkeys.
After our busy day exploring the jungle, and once some of us were back on board while others were still in the woods, we were surprised by two humpback whales swimming by. It appeared to be a mother with her calf.
Not bad for the second day of our excursion, huh?
