Monkey walk

You never know where the monkeys will take you. Could be a bromeliad patch (a wall of ground-dwelling cacti more or less), could be impassible acacia trees with their mutualistic partners -las hormigas-, could be underneath a giant Africanized bee hive without warning, because, come on, who doesn't want to get stung a hundred times while eating a delicious protein-filled nest? The adventures are endless. I would never have seen the number of snakes, cats, and other predators that I have without the faithful alarm calls from the monkeys. I owe them a lifetime's worth of great wildlife sitings!

Mesa vista

I am lucky enough to stumble upon views like these all the time. This picture should leave you with one thousand answers as to why I do what I do and get up as early as I do...

Endless beautiful fauna

A coral snake (Micrurus nigrocinctus), however I didn't see its head well enough to confirm that is was not a mimic. Beautiful regardless.

Evolution, in the flesh

A katydid camouflaged to look like a leaf! How can anyone deny natural selection when animals such as these exist?

My kinda lifestyle

In between reading "Eating Dirt" by Charlotte Gill in my hammock just outside my bedroom, I watched a fly catcher snack under a blue bird sky...un dia muy tranquila.

Could not believe my eyes...

I've spent a year of my life studying white-faced capuchins in the tropical dry forest of Parque Nacional Santa Rosa and each time something smaller than the monkeys is found by the monkeys it has been eaten. However, as you can see, don't mess with opossums, they make up for their size with their viciousness!

El Nacio

An Olive Ridley sea turtle hatchling, one of the many wonderful things I have seen in these very fast couple of weeks in Costa Rica. This is my third time visiting this paradise-filled country. I am incredibly lucky to have the number of sitings, experiences, memories that I do from this place. For those of you who have wondered where I am, why I'm never around and why I keep returning to places far from civilization, wonder no more. You will have more than enough of an understanding even if you skim through the pictures and never read a word of this blog...welcome to my life.