Day 2 at Corcavado National Park.
Today we went off hiking at 3:45am! We hiked through the jungle, down to the ocean and watched the sun come up. The temperature is sweltering here, but when I was watching the sun come up and shine down on the ocean I was overwhelmed with the scene of peace and tranquility. Here it is care free and “enjoy everything as it comes,” not wishing that anything will change. This ecosystem is self-sustaining and so diverse – it is incredible. There is layer and layer of life all intertwined by the tiniest details; but if one of those tiny details is altered it could have a catastrophic ripple effect in the environment. This entire ecosystem is in perfect balance, which is something that I feel is almost non-existent these days. And surprisingly, human beings are part of that balance. It is all hanging together by individual threads, but together these threads are extremely strong. I personally am just stunned by the quality of life here and the joy and kindness that this amazing ecosystem bestows on all.
-Ethan
As of Friday evening, our intrepid explorers have photographed almost 100 species of animals:
- Great Tinamou
- Great Curassow
- Crested Guan
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Common Black Hawk
- Yellow Headed Caracara
- White Collared Swift
- Charming hummingbird
- White tipped dove
- Black throated trogan
- Slatey tailed trogan
- Blue crowned motmot
- White whiskered puffbird
- Rufous tailed jacamar
- Pale billed woodpecker
- Black striped woodcreeper
- Chestnut backed antbird
- Rufous piha
- Tawney crowned greenlet
- Chestnut sided warbler
- Cherries tanager
- Alfaros’s pygmy squirrel
- Leaf praying mantis
- White nosed coati
- Collared peccarys
- Three toes sloth
- Golden orb spider
- Common rain frog
- Spider monkey
- Squirrel monkey
- Spectacled cayman
- Stingless bees
- Agouti
- Boa coinstrictor
- Fer de lance
- Jumping anole
- Jesus christ lizard
- June bug
- Striped whip tail lizard
- Red snapper
- Puffer fish
- Army ants
- Eciton hamatum
- Poisonous caterpillars
- leaf cutter ants
- Tapir
- Crocodile
- Eyelash pit viper
- Tailles scorpion
- Howler monkey
- Ruddy tern
- Magnificent frigate bird
- Red eyed tree frog
- Laughing gull
- White ibis
- Least sandpiper
- Spotted sandpiper
- Osprey
- Red tailed squirrel
- Tamandua anteater
- Two toed sloth
- Whip tailed scorpion
- Yellow winged damnselfly
- Spiney tailed iguana
- Black iguana
- Bare throated
- Smokey jungle frog
- Double toothed kite
- Blue butterfly
- Sucke footed ba
- White tailed deer
- Hermit crabs
- Puffer fish
- Crested caraca
- Red winged grasshopper
- Paraque
- Brown hooded parrot
- Black mandible toucan
- Black hooded ant shrike
- Dot winged ant wren
- Tiger snake
- Cat eye snake
- Eye ringed flatbilled fly catcher
- Bright rumped antilla
- Red capped manequin (Michael Jackson bird)
- Riverside wren
- Green kingfisher
- Ringed kingfisher
- Scarlet rumped cacique
- Baird sandpiper
- Red brocked deer
- Cane toad
- Green anoli
- Tent making bat
- House gecko
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