Our Trip to Costa Rica

Our first monkey sighting. These are howler monkeys.

This is a Jesus Christ Lizard. He can run on water.

Traveling the canals up to Tortuguero.

Red-eyed tree frogs mating in broad daylight.

There were lots of pretty flowers.

Tortuguero Beach. It's suggested you don't swim here (undertow and sharks).

The view from the open-air restaurant at our hotel.

Toucan

Tortuga (Mother Turtle) Hill, an extinct volcano.

Exploring the inland waterways with our guide, Modesto Watson. We highly recommend his tour.

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Green Sea Turtle tracks in the sand at dawn.

Long-nosed bats who took care of most of the mosquitos for us.

Wow - what a shot! This spider monkey actually has a baby clinging to her tummy, you can't see it in this shot though.

Driving through the mountains.

This big Crocodile was under a bridge.

View of Cathedral Point (Punta Catedral) in Manuel Antonio National Park.

The Griffins on the beach.

White-Faced (Capuchin) monkeys.

The monkeys came close to check out CC and Ona.

Baby White-Faced Monkey chewing on a twig.

Black Iguana.

Three-toed Sloth. They really are as slow as we've been told.

El Avion Restaurant. It's made from one of Ollie North's abandoned Iran Contra planes.

Our first (and only) unobscured view of Arenal Volcano

Daddy on the Canopy Tour

The Griffins up in the trees with the monkeys.

CC says she wants to try it upside-down.

Ona gets brave. We're so proud!

Mommy gets stuck.

Hummingbird.

Dairy farm at 6,000 ft. above sea level.

Last night in the country.