We have been very busy here now that it has warmed up. I am finally taking a moment, however, to post a little about what we saw in Costa Rica.
Picture 1: Costa Rican lightning bug. We loved this golden firefly that crawled on our placemat at a coffee stop in the mountains. In the middle of the U.S. ours are black.
Picture 2: Bats on the outside roof of our hotel. These guys were so amazing! We are considering putting in a bat box on our land as well, to keep down mosquitos. These bats would sometimes utter soft cheeps, very cute.
Picture 3: We drove past a number of wind turbine riddled areas. Its inspiring to see renewable energy being implemented in different countries.
Though I wonder about the impact on bird populations. I have a good book on turbines called
Picture 4: Beautiful spider. This gal was hanging from a web on a tree I climbed.
Picture 5: Beautiful tree in the middle of a cleared out field. It is clear in Costa Rica that they prize their beautiful eco-touristy coasts (as they should!) but as we drove from San Jose down to Povones in the south we saw that even beautiful Costa Rica has its environmental eyesores such as dark smoke coming from palm oil factories, pineapple mono-cropping, and
forest clearing as seen in this picture. Despite all this we have pictures of the flawless coasts as well, though I'm sure you can find those on any tourism website.
Picture 6: Serene Jerome and a flower on the beach.
Picture 7: Random mystery fruit. I'm sure I could find out what it is, but I'm kind of enjoying the mystery. This fruit had a large pit in the middle but tasted like a mix between cotton candy and gummy bears. With fruit like this
why would you ever want candy?
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