We went on a 3.5 hour boat tour along the Tortuga river and into the Tortuguero National Park. Our guide was hard to understand but he was very good at finding and pointing out the camouflaged wildlife along the river. It rained off and on during the boat ride but that is common in the rain forest/jungle.
We saw howler monkeys, toucans, anhinga (a bird), iguanas, the Jesus Christ lizard (he appears to walk on water by running very fast using his tail and hind legs), 3 caimans (related to the crockodile), spider monkeys, several varieties of heron & kingfishers, buzzards, perigrin falcon, the 3-toed sloth, a jungle porcupine, turtles, a crockodile, termite nests and wasps nests. We were not able to get pictures of most of these animals as they were too far away or in their natureal habitat and mostly hidden. Our guide also pointed out and named some of the trees and flowers we saw. It's an amazing world we live in!!
This afternoon we walked the beach of the Caribbean Sea for about 3 miles on black sand. So pretty.
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