The guide at the Monte Verde night hike found about ten bugs in the first two minutes and if he would not have stopped showing us every bug he saw the hike would have taken 4 hours in stead of two.
The next morning at the bird watching hike we went to two locations to see birds that were usually there but on the way our guide found about 10 birds and probably 7 or 8 of them never would have seen.
The guide at La Selva did the same thing. Before we started he asked if anyone saw any birds and when we said no he pointed out three from right where we were standing that no one had noticed and two of them were pretty big.
Finally I just want to mention the guide we had at the Osa. He was pretty good at finding things and he walked around with no shoes the whole time. He was walking by craps, through sharp rocks, through tall grass, through the woods, and even looking for snakes and spiders and never had shoes on the whole time.
These guides and many I failed to mention here made our ecotourism experience much better than it would have been had they not been around. I saw thigs that I never would have seen and even if I would have seen it I would not have known what half of it was. For example...the biggest trees we saw actually forms from a fig growing from the top of the tree down and strangling the host tree. They are pretty cool and I am glad I know what they actually are; without the guides I would have been clueless.
Quick shoutout to Roberto, Collon, and Laura for all the help they gave us.
And lets not forget Ronald...the best driver ever. He made this trip so much better than it would have been had we not had him as a driver.
And of course Luis...who planned everything for us.
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