BSCR Tortuga lodge
Thursday 29 January more rain, lots more

Early am bird walk, guided. Lodge provided wellies, needed them. Lots of interesting birds but unfortunately lousy pictures. Guide had a fine spotting scope. All pictures though most of them poor uploaded to Flickr automatically

Walk followed by a quick breakfast and then a boat ride into the national park/rain forest. Open air boat to see the abundant wildlife. Most of the pics are on flickr. They start with the snowy egrets.

Excellent wildlife adventure and sightings.

There are a number of pics showing to various degrees tucans, parrots, kingfishers, many more birds, sloth, iguana, howlers,caiman, spider moneys on and on. Not the best camera but only one that would have survived the constant downpour.

Visit to the turtle conversion center, usual expected film, and a beach walk to the town. Interesting history of how it was transformed from 103 persons living off the land and the turtle to a small poor town of 1050 lining of ecotourism.

Dinner. I ordered in Spanish camarones grandes. The waiter corrected me. No, camarones jumbo. I asked if jumbo is the preferred Spanish word. Si, jumbo. Camarones jumbo, por favor. The prawns were good but the Caribbean sauce a bit sweet for my liking.

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