Arenal Volcano
Cassidy gearing up for zip line
The girls ready to take off
Catarata falls and the longest zipline (almost a mile and 500' high)
Cathy surviving her first zip
Thumbwrestling to see who goes first
Cassidy and guide
trying to look like it was no big deal
help me somebody
last chance....
Maleku handcrafted masks (indigenous tribe)
Liam, glad that his won't
Owl butterfly
Why did you make me pick up a dead butterfly dad?
Blue Morpho and Owl hanging out at butterfly gardens
and friend
View from patio at los Lagos
Liam and his buddies after houskeeping came
Come on blow already....
Chilling at catarata falls
Being drowned at Catarata Falls
Cathy and Cassidy dwarfed on 600 step hike down to Catarata falls
2 kids 2 volcanos
Los lagos has an awesome pool!
Guests at los lagos
Caiman at their croc farm (los lagos...they seemed to have a nice life as far as captured animals go......)
Hanging Heliconias
Welcome to the Gandoca Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge (golden road spider, scary, but not aggressive or dangerous...really)
Sloth...I know, they are hard to see in tree photos
Cathy navigating bridge in Gandoca Manzanillo
Plant creeping up to canopy for light in GMWF
Naked Indian tree (or peeling gringo tourist tree)
Big vine (linea)
Bullet Ant (avoid climbing trees in Costa Rica!)
Mountain Cacao
Walking Palm (no trunk, they move to sun)
Running Palm?
Eyelash Viper (non-aggressive with eyelashes)
Leafcutters at work on their highway
Leafcutters coming down tree with their bounty
Vertical leafcutter highway
Monkey leather (hundreds of years old)
Leafcutter ant burrough
Poisonous Dart Frog (licking discouraged)
white tailed secadas
Liam following our local guide Omar in the Gandoca Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge
Another Eyelash viper...really they are mellow, just don't touch
Another....they are not that common, but we did see 5 different ones and 3 kinds
friendly spider
Where the trail meets the beach in GM refugio
Jesus Christ Lizard
Come on moms, it's fun!
The hike did get a little long after a few miles....
Howlers
Manzanillo Beach - awesome snorkeling and local vibe
post hike recoup
Skip-Bo, a jungle favorite at Casa Viva
Awesome snorkeling when it is calm at Punta Uva, saw many fish and the reef has lots of live coral (20' visibility)
View from the trail we take from Pachamama to the beach
Viewback the other way down Punta Uva beach
The Blue Flag is a distinction for the cleanest beaches in Costa Rica
Bustin out the boogey boards
Tubular dudes
Support crew
After a long day of fun and sun
Liam and bill's early morning beach combing find...now we need to find a machete to fill it...
View from our patio at Casa Viva (our friends dave and jeannie's place)
Lunch at Stanfords right off the Salsa Brava wave in Puerto Viejo and a new little friend...
