The main reason to got to Tortuguero is to see the wildlife, and specifically to go on boat safari don the river and into the channels. Our guide said to maximise our chances of seeing everything we should do a trip before breakfast as well as after, so we duly set off in murky drizzle at 5;40 am. Madness.
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| Group of snowy egrets |
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| a Little Blue Heron |
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| Northern Jacana |
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| Anihinga |
We eventually can across a group of Howler Monkeys. Now these creatures are relatively easy to spot as they don't move around a lot. They are vegetarians who re;ly on leaves a lot and so need to spend a lot of time still digesting. But it also makes them a little hard to photograph in the sense that they appear as hunched dark balls in the tree tops.
And although they are called Howler Monkeys, I think Growler Monkeys would be a more fitting description. They let out a deep growling noise rather than emit a high pitch howl.
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| Keel-billed Toucan |
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| Ringed Kingfisher |
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| Anihinga |
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| Night Heron |
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| Great Egret |
Now onto Spider Monkeys. Much more lively, which also causes problems to capture on camera.
We now moved int side-channels which surprisingly added little in the way of additional wildlife sightings, but was interesting for the gloomy dark waters. Very heart of darkness stuff. Deep dark green foliage mirrored in the perfectly still glassy waters.
A basilisk lizard. Someone really needs to point one out to you as otherwise they just look like a series of leaves in amongst the foliage.
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