Coati
Yet another wild goose chase of a day in effort to find the ‘wildlife sanctuary.’ We were promised kitties – jags, ocelots and caucels to play with. Our trek today led us to a sloth farm that wanted a good bit of money to show us sloths in the wild, from a distance. We’d already seen a crapton of 2 and 3-toed sloths up close and personal in the wild so we opted out. Whoever ran the gato sanctuary didn’t want to be found by conventional means, we told ourselves. Not without a booty map and a secret handshake, anyway. We tossed in the towel and got some boogie boards and play in the ocean at Playa Negra. A relaxing tapas dinner and some cocktails to wind out our last night in Bungalow 2. We had to be up and out early for our white water rafting trip. We had a lovely trip on the Rio Pacuare (between Limon and San Jose) thru Exploradores Rafting Co. We did see toucans flying in the distance, floated Class 3’s and 4’s with Able as our El Capitan (aka, Brad Pitt) We had a great group of people, a huge burrito lunch, floated and swam in the limestone shale windy waters, tho we were bitten repeatedly by wasps and swollen. Deeply carved canyons thru the Highland innundated the lush rainforest. Different Indian tribes live in the hills in these canyons and spoke to Able in their own tongue, which was neat to hear. They got us back to San Jose to the Costa Rica Backpackers where we rounded out our trip.
Some quick pics of our last days…
Colorful San Jose building
Spider monkey
Root house