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After the hot and sticky climate in Puerto Viejo by the Caribbean the next stop on the trip is Tortuguero. Here it’s hot and humid too! We get to the area by a lengthy boat ride along a canal that is parallel to the coast. This is a wonderful form of transportation in that it affords you great views of the wildlife along the river.
The boat is somewhat too speedy for good photo shoots, but next day we get good opportunities for watching wildlife and taking pictures when we take to the water in large canoes. We see different hues of herons and other birds, lizards, iguanas, caimans, howler monkeys, spider monkeys and colourful blooms and butterflies.
Tortuguero is named for the sea turtles that emerge from the Caribbean Sea at night to lay their eggs in the sand on land. Although we spend two evenings in a row trudging along the beach (walking in the sand is very tiring!) in the dark (it is so hard to see I keep tripping over plant roots), hoping to spot turtles, we see none. This is a huge disappointment to me. Some other time maybe…
