Palo Verde Pictures*

*Another post that will be updated over the course of many, many days. Unfortunately, we're leaving here on Sunday, and I probably won't have internet again until the 24th. We're going to Santa Rosa (a beach! with potential sea turtles!) and then Monteverde (a cloud forest, with lots and lots of rain!)

The group on a hike


Antlion pits (more about them in a forthcoming entry)


View from the top of a hill


View again


Jennie and Ankit


Sam


Brigette


Tree with buttress roots


Marsh! So many black-bellied whistling ducks!


Jacana. Not a great picture, and I took it through my binoculars, but I thought it was worth posting.


Cows! So the interesting thing about cows here . . . they brought them in to keep the grasses in the marsh trimmed down, so that the birds can come in to nest (there's a lot more to the story than that, about wetland management and the Invasion of the Cattails, but I might save those for another day)


Ctenosaur on a post! You can click to make the picture bigger


Some sort of water lily on the marsh


The marsh! It's really beautiful


Tree with a Vine. I love this picture


View from our front door


Pam on our step


Our room


Lemon tree outside our room


Dining hall