Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio

Location Description

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On Friday we went to a national park. Despite the $10...
Pretty awesome mating centipedes or something like that....
Joel of the Jungle.
Crossing a river. Basically all the rivers in this...
Bird of paradise flowers?
Pretty looking waterfall.
Very strange looking mushroom or fungus. Looks like a...
Monkeys in the trees! These were actually fairly easy to...
Spider monkey, walking on a power line. This was not the...
Then he came down to the ground to check us out.
Kind of shy, but pretty cute.
A sloth, being slothful. They sleep this way.
I think this sloth was actually interested enough to...
Ant - I think he was actually carrying this leaf until I...
Hermit crab, on the beach.
Joel and Morgan, on the beach.
Morgan, Joel and John, with the Pacific Ocean in the background.
A coati, or coatimundi if you want to be fancy about it....
Coati on the move.
Rooting around for grubs.
Morgan found a really weird leaf.
Butterfly that blends in well.
Bridge picture for Catherine. This ravine was actually...
Starting to get glimpses of the coast on our hike.
I think this was a really endangered type of monkey....
Bandit raccoons had completely overrun the lunch area.
They ate everything from the uncovered garbage cans unchallenged.
A mother teaches her kits to "hunt".
Mmm... plastic bag food.
Are you food?
Lunch!
Oooh, I see something.
Hahahaha. Yeah, they were sleeping and the raccoons...
When that didn't work I took a block of wood and threw...
Sleeping sloth in the tree that we picnicked under.
Cute wooden carved and painted sign.
Morgan wandering through the jungle
Lizard and hermit crab.
Monkey, directly above my head. Probably 70-100 feet up.
Neat looking island. I think this might have been an...
Sign next to a really big tree.
Still wandering through the jungle. Joel decided to go...
Joel, demonstrating well the level of humidity and heat...
Morgan, sporting Five Finger shoes.
View of the beach where we ate lunch.
I don't know if that counts as being a biped. She was...
Not a happy monkey.
Baby monkey face still funny.
Eerily human-like.
Same monkeys, now up in a tree.
I think dad showed up as well.
A whole monkey family.
Neat looking lizard.
Joel trying to balance a hermit crab on his hand.
Joel and Morgan wash their feet in a conveniently placed...
Oh hello Mr. Iguana!
Posing for a photo.
Catching some afternoon rays.
Keeping an eye on me.
Don't eat the fruit!
Scary things in the jungle that can kill you.
Interesting looking island that connects to the mainland...
I sort of wanted to check it out, so we walked down to it.
Wandering around on the chert or whatever it was.
Watching the waves come in. There were little crabs everywhere!
More islands farther out to sea.
Morgan, on our little island.
Next Joel decided he could get to the next island...
Haha.
Still not deterred.
Ok, where to go next?
Looking a little unsteady.
D'oh!
Another iguana.
Posing for the camera.
Close up shot.
And from the side.
Beautiful coloring. These guys were so exotic looking...
Just lounging about.
Off he goes...
Just outside the park near the bus stop, an old man sold...
On the way back to Quepos we decided to stop off at this...
Papyrus! At least their caipirinas were good.
Joel, after a long day hiking.
I can't even remember what this was, but it was very...
Then the restaurant was overwhelmed by a marauding band...
Howler monkeys were everywhere!
These ones actually swung by their tails. Neato.
Using a tail for balance.
A little bit of history on the model of plane used to...
Joel drinking something with midori in it. I think it...
That is a tropical looking drink.
Morgan at El Avion.
We noticed there was a sloth sleeping in a tree just a...
Somehow we managed to arrive at this bar at the start of...
And then it got really dark. So, since it was almost...
The bar (plane) as seen from the street at night.
Slightly better lighting.