| Another early morning. BUT, that usually
means we have things to ourselves. I think it is a good idea to do
tours as early as possible. Once again, it's going to be just Lisa
and I our a tour by ourselves. Which is just fine and dandy with us.
Here's a description of our tour from their website:
Early Birds Watching Tour
For birdwatchers
we offer our Early Birds morning tour. It starts at
6:00 AM with a naturalist - ornithologist guide that
looks for birds all over the place: the forest edge,
the abandon pasture lands and the parking lot area
and on the primary forest, into our unique trail and
bridges… A great diversity of environments, for a
great diversity of species.
Go Explore the Birds Watching Tour
Regularly we count between 50 and 60 species of
birds during this tour, what makes it, one of the
most productive bird watching walks of the region
and the country. Besides the 2 hours and 30 minutes
walk, this tour includes 30 minutes to edit the list
of the species found in the morning.
Included:
Naturalist-Ornithologist Guide and admission fee to
the private reserve. Additional benefit- Early
Birds: Additional benefit for Early Birds Morning
Tour! Clients will receive an additional free
admission during the next 3 days in our regular
schedule from 7:30 am to 4:30 pm.
We take a golf cart ride with our guide from the hotel to the Arenal Hanging
Bridges. The weather is rainy and windy. We will make the best of it, as
we always do. We waiting around the entrance for about 30 minutes to
see if the weather is going to improve. Since it isn't, I say we go
forward.
Even at the entrance of the area, there are many birds. Once
inside, due to the bad weather, we don't see as many birds as we had
hoped. The rain continues to fall and the winds blow. That's life
and that's why we brought good rain gear. Our guide was very nice
and informative. She was a college student, getting ready to start
work on her Masters. Here are some of the better pictures from our
tour:
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Back at the hotel, the wind and the rain
continued. I thought it was best that we cancelled our
zip line tour,
which was a good choice. The weather only got worse as the day went
on. I did take the time to snap a few more pictures around the
hotel. That evening, we saw the toucan at the bar again. We had
another good meal at the hotel and went to bed early. It was the
last time we would see electricity for a while. |
