Tortuguero

When Joel came to visit, we set off for Tortuguero. Its a quaint little village only accessible by boat located in the middle of dense jungle that is known for being the breeding grounds of monster sea turtles. We took a boat from Limon that traveled through the extensive canal system and allowed us to see a lot of the wildlife without getting eaten alive by mosquitos. Or crocodiles.

Some pelicans.












A cocodrilo, de terror!! Damn, those things are monstrous and creepy and camo- flauged and . . .






This little monkey is hiding. And all you can see is his enormous package, in stark contrast to his leafy surroundings.














Mapaches!! Or racoons. Aren´t their little curious eyes cute? Not as cute as the monkeys, of course. But pretty darn cute.




Here´s a little playful cutie pie monkey watching us with his little curious white face. I´m not really to sure if I could fit any more adjectives in that previous sentence. Anyway, as most of you know, I´m obsessed with monkeys and I frequently try to be like them, only I unfortunately don´t have a tail to use for balance and grabbing branches when jumping from tree to tree. Also, I can´t howl like those hella loud howler monkeys, though I definitely tried hard.

Fuzzy sloth, think he has three toes or something but who knows? He doesn´t move. Supposedly, they come down about once every 8 days. This was in Cahuita, a beautiful Caribbean beach where we went after Tortuguero. We really wanted to try surfing and we figured it didn´t really matter if the waves were small because we´re beginners and all, but they were really nonexistent. We did, however, go snorkeling and saw an 8 foot nurse shark and two four foot barracudas. De terror. I like the little sparkly neon ones better. The Nemo fish and the black ones with blue polka dots.

This little possum looks stuffed. But, alas, he´s not. And, as you can see, I didn´t actually take any pictures of me or Joel, just the animals. I´ll have to get some others from Joel.