Refugio Curu and Isla Tortuga, Costa Rica
Well everything has to end, and our expedition is not outside this rule! Today was our last day of this family trip and what could be a better end than visiting a wildlife refuge to say our last goodbye to this wonderful tropical forest and the animals that live in it?
We visited the Curu Wildlife Refuge, a place that protects a beautiful tropical dry forest which is home to many birds and animals. The Refuge is also running a program for the reintroduction of species that once were common and abundant few years ago and nowadays are gone due to habitat loss and illegal hunting. Two of the species they have been reintroducing are spider monkeys and scarlet macaws; they are also creating an artificial reef built of old tires.
This wonderful place was created in1983 as a way to protect habitat and wildlife. Today on our hike we had the chance to see some of this wildlife such as white-faced capuchin monkeys, mantled howler monkeys, American crocodiles, flycatchers, wrens, and so many others that their names escaped our memory and it was hard to keep up with the list of the hike.
In the afternoon we had a lecture from naturalist Rafael Robles on sea turtles and right after we headed to the beach on Tortuga Island, where we enjoyed the ride on a zip line for the first part of the afternoon. For the rest of the afternoon we had our last drinks, a soccer game and the last ultimate Frisbee match, and if this wasn’t enough, some of us swam back to the Sea Voyager to enjoy our last dinner on this trip.
Well, I must say it has been an amazing trip in these tropical waters enjoying the beauty of its flora, fauna, its people and most important of all, the beautiful planet and our only home, Earth.
Well everything has to end, and our expedition is not outside this rule! Today was our last day of this family trip and what could be a better end than visiting a wildlife refuge to say our last goodbye to this wonderful tropical forest and the animals that live in it?
We visited the Curu Wildlife Refuge, a place that protects a beautiful tropical dry forest which is home to many birds and animals. The Refuge is also running a program for the reintroduction of species that once were common and abundant few years ago and nowadays are gone due to habitat loss and illegal hunting. Two of the species they have been reintroducing are spider monkeys and scarlet macaws; they are also creating an artificial reef built of old tires.
This wonderful place was created in1983 as a way to protect habitat and wildlife. Today on our hike we had the chance to see some of this wildlife such as white-faced capuchin monkeys, mantled howler monkeys, American crocodiles, flycatchers, wrens, and so many others that their names escaped our memory and it was hard to keep up with the list of the hike.
In the afternoon we had a lecture from naturalist Rafael Robles on sea turtles and right after we headed to the beach on Tortuga Island, where we enjoyed the ride on a zip line for the first part of the afternoon. For the rest of the afternoon we had our last drinks, a soccer game and the last ultimate Frisbee match, and if this wasn’t enough, some of us swam back to the Sea Voyager to enjoy our last dinner on this trip.
Well, I must say it has been an amazing trip in these tropical waters enjoying the beauty of its flora, fauna, its people and most important of all, the beautiful planet and our only home, Earth.
