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Just Keep Swimming
10th January Today is the day to leave Tirimbina, our bags packed with the damp clothes amassed from the past couple of days and soaked walking boots everywhere in sight. Unfortunately the weather didn’t hold out for us here but we still had some cracking finds, such as this little guy – the granular glass…
sf343 January 19th, 2017 Costa Rica, Costa Rica archive anhinga, armadillo, coati, Costa Rica, Field Course, granular glass frog, green iguana, La Fortuna, lake Arenal, Los Lagos hotel and spa, Monteverde, ocelot, rain, research, tanagers, Tirimbina, volcano, water slides
Soaking Students
9th January In hindsight it seems a bit naive of us to have thought the past few days were wet, today the rainforest truly did live up to its name. The topic of the day revolved around conducting censuses of species in the jungle using auditory and visual cues to count the number of different…
sf343 January 19th, 2017 Costa Rica, Costa Rica archive bats, boat, brilliant frog, census, Costa Rica, Field Course, Glass frog, harvestman, La Fortuna, rain, rainforest, swimming, tarantula, terupine
RAINforest
9th January Day two happened to get even more rainy with water levels quickly rising reaching 1 inch from the bridge to access our accommodation. This was the day to move on to our next location, Tirimbina, but not before another walk around the station keeping our eyes peeled for any exciting species, such as…
sf343 January 18th, 2017 Costa Rica, Costa Rica archive antbirds, aposematism, army ants, climbing, Costa Rica, Field Course, flooding, green iguana, green iguanas, kingfisher, La Selva, mimicry, montezuma oropendola, poison dart frog, river crossing, sunshine, Tirimbina
And so it begins
7th January 2017 After hours of travel and rather a few delays, 40 students set to embark on Field course Costa Rica congregated at Hotel Autentico, jet lagged but keen to see the incredible diversity this country has to offer. Stuffed from our 6.30am breakfast the group set off for the La Selva biological…
sf343 January 14th, 2017 Costa Rica, Costa Rica archive biological station, boa constrictor, Costa Rica, Field Course, frogging, headtorch, Hotel Autentico, La Selva, poison dart frog, rain, red-eyed tree frog, Three-toed sloth