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 kyoub's Costa Rica Travelogues | | | | Title [Click to view] | Travel Year | Pictures | | Arribada | September, 1997 |  6 | | Tarcol | May, 1995 | 4 | | Nosara | September, 1997 | 3 |
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| Page Views: 745 Last Visit to Costa Rica: May, 1995 | Tarcol by kyoub - last update: Jul 12, 2004 |
Tarcol Lodge is nestled at the mouth of the Rio Tarcoles on the Pacific Coast, 40 miles west of San Jose. It is strategically located at the entrance to the 12,000-acre Carara Biological Reserve, the most reliable spot in all of Costa Rica to see Scarlet Macaw. The habitat is a combination of tropical lowland forest, gallery forest, mudflats, and open ocean.
We came here by auto from Rancho Naturalista, southeast of Turriaba. |
|  | Mud When the tide goes out it leaves the mudflats. These are on all three sides of the lodge. It would leave the boat high and dry.
We could walk across and go to the beach if we didn't mind getting out feet a little muddy. |
| | Shorebirds The huge expanse of mudflats attracts hundreds of shorebirds, thousands during migration.
We sat on the patio for hours at a time watching to see what would appear next. |
| | Croc At high tide, the mud flats disappear, and the river comes up close to the lodge on three sides. Then you might look out and see a crocodile in the river. |
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| kyoub's Costa Rica Travelogues | | | | Title [Click to view] | Travel Year | Pictures | | Arribada | September, 1997 | 6 | | Tarcol | May, 1995 | 4 | | Nosara | September, 1997 | 3 |
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agapotravel Sun Sep 14, 2008 18:57 UTC
Hi Kay! Costa Rica has always been on my wish list because of the waterfalls! I enjoyed my virtual tour around your pages. Great information and gorgeous pictures! :-) | sourbugger Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:33 UTC
some excellent tiny animal tips here - always a winner for me ! | Pete.Gibson Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:11 UTC
Thank you for sharing your experiences in this fasinating country, its still high up there on my to go list | toonsarah Sun Oct 21, 2007 14:22 UTC
An excellent overview of one of the countries high on my wish list - and now even higher, thanks especially to your descriptions of birds and the turtles nesting |
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