Jungle Lodge Tortuguero

... the canals. We entered narrow canals with the most amazing vegetation on each side of us. It really was the wild forest. We saw mostly birds and even a cayman (small crocodile) hiding near some logs and only sticking the head up. I must give it to our captain and our guide that they have incredible eye sight for spotting even the smallest animals. And in fact we also got to see a turtle. Well not a sea turtle, but a tiny freshwater turtle sticking only its head up ...

... ungl*ublich *nstrengend.<br><br>Am Besten schildere ich euch einm*l einen T*g bei l* Tortug* feliz:<br><br>Norm*lerweise h*tte m*n jeweils 2x eine 4-Stunden Schicht, eine T*gsüber und eine N*chts. So mussten die Schule und die &#8222;Schlüpferei"(ich gl*ub m*n nennt dies so in deutsch, *uf *lle Fälle d*, wo wir *lle Schildkröteneier eingr*ben und w*rten bis sie n*ch c*. 30 T*gen schlüpfen) während 24 Stunden überw*cht werden. N*chts ...

... on the beach-its a lot more difficult that it would seem to be) and then we saw a turtle making her way back to the water.  I had no idea that the green turtles were so big! Her shell was about 3 feet wide by 4-5 feet long!  She moved really slowly but it was interesting to watch her make it back to the Caribbean.  <br><br>It took another 30 minutes before another turtle was spotted and but it was only about 1/4 km away this time.  She had just started laying her eggs ...

... we took a taxi until the blockage, then walked though it, looking anxiously at the people, getting down under some strings and passing by washing machines, burning tires and who else knows what was out there :) We never found out, what the strike was actually about, but it was a funny experience of costarican style strike *g* Lucky as we are, we once again found a Pickup, that took us all the way up to Limon and from there we went on a 5 hour boat ride all the way up to Tortuguero ...

... In the evening Willis drove us back to Toruguero by boat for some dinner and drinks at the only club in town. On entering the club at 8.30pm so way to early for anything to be happening we found it to be a large wooden building with wooden floors, a double door dropping you straight into the river below, fairy lights coiled around the beams and a disco ball which looked like it had seen better days ...

... kuka vain tullimies olla enemmänkin kiinostunut kuin kysymyksen "Milloin tulitte Nicaraguaan?" -verran. Illaksi kuitenkin pääsimme vielä ensimmäiseen rantakohteeseemme Playas del Cocoon, joka oli hurmaava sekoitus Kanarian Saaria ja naapurissa neljään asti auki olevia diskoteekkejä, ja että huoneemme ikkuna oli diskoteekkien suuntaan ja koostui vain hyttysverkosta. Kaiken lisäksi huomasimme ikäväksemme, että Costa Ricassa on kaikki huomattavasti kalliimpaa kuin ...

... King line. Yes, really we only substituted one questionable food for another, but it was something we knew and could trust. Heaven. After that little R&amp;R break we were off again. The rest of the journey was supposed to take about 1.5 hours, but it took a little longer than that because of the road we had to take. If you could call it that. It was paved in some places, dirt in others, nothing but wheel rim deep ...

... it heaved itself out of the hole and into the waves. We were then herded over to another mama turtle, who had finished laying her eggs and was in the process of camouflaging and aerating the nest. They like to cover the eggs with lots of loose soil so oxygen can still get in, and they typically dig them right where the sand meets the fertile soil, so they're partially in the shade. First they cover the nest with sand using their hind flippers, then they ...