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Cabuya Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Cabuya, Costa Rica
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Rainsong Week 2
This is a video taken by yours truly sitting in a stream just outside our back garden. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCoE-yMPKCE I sat there for about 30 minutes watching a troop of about 10 howler monkeys (including 2 males) climb and howl above me. ...
Cabo Blanco
... !!!Direkt am Strand unter Palmel ein grosses Lagerfeuer, etwa 70 tanzende Menschen und grooossartiges Soundsystem.Genauso stelle ich mir eine traditionelle Costa Ricische Raggae-Beach-Party vor: Mit Gentleman und Seeed!!!(ja ...
Rainsong Week 1
Tropical storms suck! Luckily we bought some Havana Club rum back from Cuba with us and managed to throw Katy a decent birthday party with the Rainsong volunteers anyway. The sanctuary isnīt quite what we expected and is a little disorganised and ...
Monkeys Poop on Us
We're in Cabuya, Costa Rica, a very remote town on the Nicoya Peninsula. We’re volunteering 4 hours a day at a wildlife sanctuary. Of course, we have no wildlife experience, but it doesn’t seem to matter. Here is what a typical day is ...
Cabo Blanco
Today we headed to Cabo Blanco. The Cabo Blanco nature reserve was the first national park established in Costa Rica. A Swedish/Danish couple bought up some farm land and persuaded others to donate land and basically allowed it to return to ...
Ohhh Feliz
We went down to Mary's at 8am and got the basics on feeding the animals and then Pipo stopped by the farm calling for Piggy, a collared peccary who now runs wild and comes back to the farm to be fed. Pipo and Piggy are the best of friends haha. Piggy ...
Rainsong 5: Tarzan and Bullet Ants
... or hand! Mary let me go back a few hours later and my body was still on fire! I googled large ants in Costa Rica and the symptoms and discovered it was a bullet ant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Which according to google, is the worlds most painful insect ...
Feliz strikes again!
When we first came in today, we heard Mary sobbing. We cautiously walked in wondering which animal died but realized it was all due to a sad cat harrassment video. Today was a long day of work at Rainsong since the university changed their date of ...
On our way to Cabuya
After a few days relaxing in Jaco with Scott and Junko we headed back to San Jose once again to get a few necessities before we head to the Nicoya Peninsula. We leave today, on what should be an all day adventure to get to the animal sanctuary. If all ...
Mary's Falls
We got a new gas tank after regular animal feeding and then helped Mike with double wiring Lola's cage. Of course it started to rain in the afternoon after a promising sunny morning. Tica, Mary's dog, followed us up to the lodgehouse to stay with us. It ...
Dalma
... a big fan. A french couple came for information about the place so that they could advertise information about what there is to see in Cabuya. Mary blew up at them so I took over and tried to get answers and give them. Mary rushed in a stray puppy ...
Day 12- Settling into the "Real" Costa Rica
... a little too exciting, so we were forced to vacate eventually. Funny to recall how Ivy was scared of the ocean on our first days in Costa Rica, but now she marches to the end of our yard and points to it to let us know she wants to go for a swim. ...
Nope, the World Lives!
Oh look. The world is still in tact. Some scholars THOSE were. Taught Fenna more on the animal feeding and rules of Rainsong. We met Mary's new biologist, Nelson. I then got to edit and upload nearly all trip pictures so far and put them up for people. ...
If you like Pina Coladas
Happy Halloween!!! Today is our last day of volunteering at Rainsong. We performed the usual animal care and feeding along with excess duties such as washing and cleaning the lower sanctuary fridges. We went back to the lodgehouse after a fast day of ...
Rainsong 4: Last day!
Today is my last day here at Rainsong. I'm feeling a bit saddened in leaving these animals in the midst of having watched them grow, heal, and develop. However, I'm extremely excited to go home and spend time with my family and friends! The past week has ...
Mal Pain-Santa Teresa
This is it! Our very last week in Costa Rica and we decided to spend our last days just like we started... on the beach. We spent the last morning in Monteverde drinking up the best coffee ever! Monteverde has lots of coffee plantations all over and is ...
End of the World?
... coladas with for our Send-Off party. She has planned this nice dinner get together for Mike and I the night before we leave Cabuya. We think she's more excited about those pina coladas than anyone! We were given pasta for dinner that night, a ...
The Gecko Incident
I've been waking up earlier and earlier the past few days due to discomfort and not being able to sleep well. The tent is a saviour in terms of bug prevention but we only have one sleeping pad that we both try to fit on. I made a sandwich at 5:30am for ...
My new competition and some wonderful new Stains
Pocohontas kept us up ALL. FREAKIN. NIGHT. with her bleeting!!! Mike must have stomped down those stairs 3 different times in a yelling rampage. I swear it sounded like she was calling out "Miiiiiike. MIIIIIIIKE." Ever since he showed dominance over ...
Costa Rica- sharing home with ants, bats, monkeys
... Germany we were yelled at for transgressing a rule; in Italy witnessed the shouting match between the cashier and the customers; in Costa Rica finding stores well stocked but given ninety percent over to necessities. In these stores you will not find any ...
Rainsong 2: Electrocutions
... be in shock, although they are doing a bit better. Animal electrocutions are serious and can be extremely fatal. In just 5 years, Costa Rica has lost about 50% of its monkey population due to electrocutions! The government is simply not willing to spend ...
Hitching in the rain
... in his enclosure right off the bat and thought that was the greatest thing. I'm steering clear of that monkey still (Read my Costa Rica/Rainsong blog on here for more details about my internship here last summer). We were given fruits and veggies and a ...
Finding our piece of paradise
... (I'm dreaming of a bungalow on the beach, Mom) and Casa Las Rocas won! We drove out the dirt road south of Montezuma towards Cabuya. The house is about 1.5 miles out of town and the ride along the beachfront is awesome. Lots of iguanas, howler monkeys and ...
Rainsong 3: RIP's
... about any sightings of electrocutions. The group is also for anybody who wants to prevent these horrid electrocutions and bring back Costa Rica's famous draw toward Ecotourism. It is my biggest challenge and hope while here for my internship, that we can ...
Shove it Nelson!
Nelson the new biologist had stayed the night at the farm with us, only downstairs on the couch. He was yelling for Mike at 5am! Apparently there was no water on the farm and so he wanted Mike to wake up and come help him somehow. It was fixed later ...
Prolapsed Turtle
Did the regular animal feeding routine this morning and brought lunch to Mary's. Mike Pipo and Kevin, a high school student who helps on the weekends for lunch money from Mary, built a chain link barrier around an enclosure to prevent boas and pizotes ...
Rainsong Wildlife Sanctuary
... few hours at the sanctuary I got to bottle feed three baby mantled howler monkeys while learning about the history of the sanctuary and Costa Rica. I spent the first few days learning how to prep food for the animals and clean cages as well as give tours. ...
Tarzan's Escape
... to drivers. Once we were over the bridge and back on sturdy ground, we walked a bit and then hitched all the way back to Cabuya with a pickup truck that made it through the flooded bridge! We made it back to Mary's to give her the loan so that she ...
Life on the farm
... babies. People bring animals in from the surrounding area or a government agency will bring them in. We are regulated by the Costa Rica government but don't receive funding from them. This weekend, a large group of biologists are coming to inspect the ...
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