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| Page Views: 154 Last Visit to Costa Rica: November, 2004 | Tortuguero by zweiblumen - last update: Oct 26, 2005 |
Parque Nacional Tortuguero Situated on the North East Caribbean coast Tortuguero national park is named after the Spanish for turtle (Tortuga) and several species of turtle breed here. The park is mainly rain forest with an abundance of rivers and canals. Because of this the main way of getting about in the Tortuguero area is by river boat. |
|  | Big Trees There was always the opportunity to walk in the rainforest. A chance not to be missed, I am no botanist but even I could not fail to be impressed by the sheer size and variety of plantlife that grew there. |
Ants The first sight that greeted us when we arrived at our accommodation in Tortuguero was a line of leaf cutter ants. This line a column would be a better description, stretched for over 100m across the paths and into the forest. The ants would labour day and night cutting sections of leaf and carrying them this great distance (for an ant) back to their nest. The ants do not eat the leaves but rather grow a fungus on the leaves which is then eaten. | | |
| | Crocodiles If you are really lucky you might see some big Crocodiles like this chap here, however normally the most commonly seen in the Tortuguero area are Spectacled Caimans. Strangley though I didn't see one Caiman in Tortuguero but I did see three of the much larger American Crocodiles. |
Spider Monkey If you are even luckier you might get to see a Central American Spider Monkey, I only got a fleeting glimpse of a couple and this sad photograph was the best I could take | | |
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SLLiew Thu Nov 23, 2006 08:32 UTC
A picture last forever. Wow... red eye, orange webbed green frog. What else is there? Excellent. Cheers, SL | Nixter01 Tue Jun 27, 2006 22:11 UTC
WOW you really do have some amazing pictures of the animal kingdom.....David Bailey in disguise i think ! You will love Fuerteventura, its a onderful island...Nikki | rebibi Sun Apr 30, 2006 19:37 UTC
Really amazing your wildlife pictures. Will be there in 3 weeks and I hope to see some of these animals. | sprdak11 Sun Apr 9, 2006 12:47 UTC
Wonderful pictures! Greetings. |
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