This is a photo from our excursion to the Manuel Antonio Park today where our extraordinary guide, Michael (introduced as "Mikey") showed us sloths, frogs, capuchins, snakes and poison apples. It was a lazy kind of day for this sloth, but he was soaking wet - bad hair day - and his fur really WAS green. Our guide was full of himself and his biological prowess, but he WAS a master at spotting species and getting his telescope lined up so that we could see and photograph. It does trouble me that the park - a space that should be a sanctuary for rainforest species has become more of a honky tonk town with trinket shops selling geegaws instead of maintaining the integrity of its ecological function.
Sigh.
After seeing and photographing the wildness of the place, we drove to Ronny's, a restaurant that required our driving up and over rocky terrain and steep, curving pitted road. Once there we had the most sublime glasses of sangria and overlooked the sea and mounta
ins below and in the distance.
ins below and in the distance. Tomorrow Brookie and I head down to the Osa Peninsula to MORE rain and drear, but I hope I can report on some spiritual spaces - at least some more serenity than I found today.
so there you are! I just happened upon you in the blogosphere. If you want some hot hot weather, and no rain, just jump on a plane and wing your way back home. We will save some hotness for you, okay? But no sloths, we're busy.
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