Activities: Turtle Tours
After yesterday’s power nap and a solid night’s sleep, I woke up at dawn and walked along the beach. Turtle Beach is one of few Tortuguero lodges with its own beachfront, and I wanted to take advantage of every minute in this perfect location. The sun was a soft yellow and the volcanic sand was already warm beneath my feet. I’m an early riser, but rarely do I get a chance to walk along a deserted beach just after sunrise — I decided that this was the ideal beginning to the day.
Fifteen minutes and a …
Location: Northern Caribbean, Tortuguero »
Activities: Bird & Wildlife Watching, National Parks & Reserves, Safari Float, Turtle Tours »
Before visiting Tortuguero, I associated the area with turtles. Just turtles. All I wanted was to see a turtle, and so when, on my second night, I saw four nesting green sea turtles, I thought to myself, “Wow. I’ve seen the turtles, but I have four days left. Now what?”
I needn’t have worried. Though Tortuguero is known and even named for its nesting turtle populations, this northern Caribbean town has so much more to offer. I found myself enchanted by the area’s winding canals, especially the mysterious Cano Palma, where the water is so black …
Location: Northern Caribbean, Recent Trips, Tortuguero »
Activities: Bird & Wildlife Watching, National Parks & Reserves, Safari Float, Sport Fishing, Turtle Tours »
Yesterday, a local surfer had told me that he and his buddies spotted baby sea turtles waddling into the surf at Playa Camaronal around 7:30 a.m. Supposedly when one batch of hatchlings is born, others follow suit for the next seven days at about the same time of day. Vincent and I wanted to see this miracle happen in front of our own eyes, and were determined to spend the morning hunting baby sea turtles – for photographic purposes only, of course.
Playa Camaronal is a part of the Camaronal National Wildlife Refuge, just three …
Location: Carillo, Nicoya Peninsula, North Pacific »
Activities: Bird & Wildlife Watching, National Parks & Reserves, Turtle Tours »
