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Butterflies
Here at the reserve there is a butterfly project. This just for learning about butterflies so that possibly in the future the reserve can have a butterfly project where they look after and breed butterflies for conservation purposes. We had to check how many caterpillars there were in the enclosures, clean out the droppings and…
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Beware of Crocs! 👀
Well it seems we have a lot of crocs here😳 People here wear them a lot….grown adults would you believe!! They wear them to walk along stony paths, through mud, through rivers; I don’t know how they do it – they are just not comfortable or attractive in any way (except for kids)😌 Fortunately I…
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Whale watching
Yesterday after the exciting night finding the turtle I was up early to get a taxi with 5 of the others to go on a whale watching trip! We were directed to a boat which was smaller than we imagined – for 12 people. 2 of us went on this , 2 on another, 1…
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Such an Exciting Night!
Sat night I was on the night turtle watch at 10pm- 1.30am The tide was right out so we were able to cross the river tributary near the beach which made it much quicker to access the beach. It was a dark night, cloudy and not many stars – no storm over the sea so…
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National Beach Clean Day
Today 7 of us went to Hermosa Beach to join the National Beach Clean Day armed with buckets and gloves. We spent an hour with others picking up rubbish. So much plastic and other stuff on the beach – and this is one of the cleaner beaches – lots of tiny pieces of plastic which…
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Rainy Day
Yesterday it rained a lot Once it eased off a bit 3 of us ventured to the jungle in wet wear gear to go and change the SD cards in three cameras. These are to see what other wildlife is wandering about during the day and night. I think we got more wet on the…
Karen’s Turtle Trip - Costa Rica 