Golfo Dulce
When I wake up and look through the windows, I can’t believe my eyes. It is so green, all around. Everywhere I come across, it is just green, in every kind of hue, from light to turquoise green to fresh to ancient green.
This is the Pacific southern coast of Costa Rica, a rich coast. And definitely from what I see, this is true richness, not only in beauty, but in biodiversity, scenery and warmth of its people.
I am in love! And I feel today like sharing my love for this country with you all. This is not my homeland, but I feel it as close as if it were. After all, we inhabit the same planet, and I live on the same continent, and it makes me proud, as an inhabitant of this world, that a country small in size, relatively speaking, has done so much to preserve its biodiversity.
So here we are, at Golfo Dulce, sweet gulf, visiting a botanical garden where, as Fico (one of our naturalists says) plants grow as if they had been fed with steroids. But it is the tropics and the richness of this land.
In the afternoon we Zodiac rode and kayaked along a river mouth, and into the river. This was Rio Esquinas and for the first time ever, Christian, a naturalist with more than two decades of experience, contemplates a turquoise Cotinga. Isabel finds a rainbow boa constrictor, while Mauricio, our Panamanian naturalist, paddles through mangroves as he tells about their importance.
It is the people, it is the land; this is Central America on board the Sea Voyager.
When I wake up and look through the windows, I can’t believe my eyes. It is so green, all around. Everywhere I come across, it is just green, in every kind of hue, from light to turquoise green to fresh to ancient green.
This is the Pacific southern coast of Costa Rica, a rich coast. And definitely from what I see, this is true richness, not only in beauty, but in biodiversity, scenery and warmth of its people.
I am in love! And I feel today like sharing my love for this country with you all. This is not my homeland, but I feel it as close as if it were. After all, we inhabit the same planet, and I live on the same continent, and it makes me proud, as an inhabitant of this world, that a country small in size, relatively speaking, has done so much to preserve its biodiversity.
So here we are, at Golfo Dulce, sweet gulf, visiting a botanical garden where, as Fico (one of our naturalists says) plants grow as if they had been fed with steroids. But it is the tropics and the richness of this land.
In the afternoon we Zodiac rode and kayaked along a river mouth, and into the river. This was Rio Esquinas and for the first time ever, Christian, a naturalist with more than two decades of experience, contemplates a turquoise Cotinga. Isabel finds a rainbow boa constrictor, while Mauricio, our Panamanian naturalist, paddles through mangroves as he tells about their importance.
It is the people, it is the land; this is Central America on board the Sea Voyager.
