Tag: Costa Rica
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Nicoya Peninsula (Pacific Coast)
After exploring some areas around the Turrialba area, I headed down to Montezuma on the Pacific Coast. The Nicoya Peninsula is the large body of land in the westernmost part of the coast, and it’s faster to take a ferry across than to drive all the way around the gulf. I was headed there to…
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Turrialba
Here are some photos from the area around the Turrialba Volcano. Photo-heavy, text-light. More to come about my time on the Nicoya Peninsula in the next post! There are some pictures. I’m headed out of Costa Rica now, so I’ll be trying to put together a post about the beach sometime in the next couple…
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Finca Ecológica San Luis
How do we secure the future of natural places? This question has many answers, most of which require some form of economic incentive. One such answer is ecotourism. Ecotourism at its core is visiting a place to observe its ecology, whether that be elephants in Africa, penguins on Antarctic icebergs or Quetzals in the Central…
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Mirador El Pizote
This post represents an interlude in my stay at La Finca Ecológica (covered in a forthcoming post). Sergio picked me up at about 5 in San Luis and we drove up to his family’s property in Boca Tapada, near San Carlos by the Nicaraguan border. It was about a five hour drive because of a…
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Reserva Curi-Cancha
Today was a super fun day of birding at Curi-Cancha, a reserve that’s a little lower in elevation than Monteverde and a little closer to Santa Elena. I got there just as the reserve was opening at 7AM, and started seeing birds immediately. While the forest here might not be as pristine as that of…
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Monteverde and Finca San Luis
The fun bird pictures are at the bottom of the post! But you should read through the whole thing for the full context. After arriving in Santa Elena I decided to take the next morning slow, so I woke up late (in birding terms, at 6:45) and enjoyed the free breakfast at my hostel. Afterwards…
Backcountry Birding 