Costa Rica is renowned for its biodiversity - we didn't get to go hiking, but I was surprised by how much we saw from bus windows and around the hotel.
Crab wars on the beach!
This looks like an iguana to me - huge! There were heaps of these guys just hanging around the hotel.
This is a toucan - it was actually a fair way away, so it was hard to get a good photo. Apparently there are six different types of toucans in Costa Rica, and this is one of the less brightly colored ones that inhabit the Caribbean side of the country (we saw it from our long bus trip to the volcano).
Monkeys! White-faced capuchins to be exact - apparently there are only 4 types of monkeys in Costa Rica, and out of the four we saw these guys and a howler monkey. We saw this group hanging around in a tree on the beach, watching the tourists go past. We could literally walk under their tree, but when we did...
This guy seemed pretty angry at Stephen for getting so close to his tree, and ran towards us hissing and showing his teeth. I was worried he was going to try to claw Stephen's face off. The tour guide later told us that you shouldn't smile at these monkeys, because showing your teeth is a sign of aggression, so that's probably why he ran towards us showing us his!
It's a little hard to see, but these are some
Caimans hanging around in the lake here. They were only babies, but I still wasn't going much closer.
Finally, a macaw, in the restaurant we had lunch at. Noisier than a cockatoo!
iguana dude is cool. Love lizards. Col and I swam in a water hole with a water monitor looking on in Darwin recently. Totally ace until some jerk tourist came over and started harassing the lizard to get a closer look. counter productive lizard amateur!
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