Day 3, our we started the day on a 5:30 am boat trip around Tortuguero National Park to see the flora and fauna in the area. The park is only reachable only by airplane or boat,
but is the third-most visited park in Costa Rica. The park has eleven different habitats, including rainforest, mangrove forests, swamps, beaches, and lagoons.
It is very humid, and receives up to 250 inches of rain a year. Costa Rica has a dry season mid-December to April, and rainy season the rest of the year, but Tortuguero has only
a wet season and very wet season. During the ride, our group saw a Three-Toed Sloth, Caiman, Green Iguana, Bats, Jacanas, Porcupine in a tree, Anhinga birds, and Spider Monkeys.
After the ride, the group returned for a hike throught the rainforest, where we saw various tree speciies and animal life, including Crabs, a Termite nest, a Lizard, a
Yellow-Throated Toucan, Red Ants and Wild Almond hardwood trees.
The three of us took an optional hike up close to 500 stairs to the lookout on Cerro Tortuguero, an ancient, extinct volcano on the north end of the National Park.
The hike featured several small, bright red and very poisonous Dart Frogs, a couple of Yellow-Throated Toucans, a Walking Tree and a Spider spinning its web.
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