Manuel Antonio National Park
Our last day on the Sea Voyager, we woke up at 6:30am in Manuel Antonio National Park, the second smallest in the national park system In spite of its size, it’s also one of the most popular, with 1625 hectares, beautiful white sand beaches and prolific wildlife. At 8:00am we sent the Zodiacs ashore as the rain gave us a fantastic wet welcome to the rain forest. Manuel Antonio is one of the places where we can see sloths, this trip was not the exception. In our walk in the rain, we spotted five brown-throated three-toed sloths. Sloths spend part of their day sunning themselves high in the canopy, as they have to digest leaves all day in order to extract from them some nutrients. We also spotted a rainbow boa that everyone missed right until the end, right next to our station on the beach. This boa was the animal of the day, because it is certainly not common to see. Everybody had a chance to take pictures of it. After the rain stopped we enjoyed the sun and the ocean swimming before we headed on our last Zodiac back to the Sea Voyager.
Before we anchored in Los Sueños Marina, we enjoyed presentation by Gustavo Abarca on Costa Rica History. Later in the afternoon, we met again at the bar-lounge for the “Photo Gallery” organized by our Photo Expedition Leaders Jack and Rikki Swenson, a slide show of the pictures that our guests wanted to share with us. As the sun set with a spectacular show in every tone of red, the Capitan of our vessel, Fernando Ramos, bid us farewell, “until our next voyage together”.
Our last day on the Sea Voyager, we woke up at 6:30am in Manuel Antonio National Park, the second smallest in the national park system In spite of its size, it’s also one of the most popular, with 1625 hectares, beautiful white sand beaches and prolific wildlife. At 8:00am we sent the Zodiacs ashore as the rain gave us a fantastic wet welcome to the rain forest. Manuel Antonio is one of the places where we can see sloths, this trip was not the exception. In our walk in the rain, we spotted five brown-throated three-toed sloths. Sloths spend part of their day sunning themselves high in the canopy, as they have to digest leaves all day in order to extract from them some nutrients. We also spotted a rainbow boa that everyone missed right until the end, right next to our station on the beach. This boa was the animal of the day, because it is certainly not common to see. Everybody had a chance to take pictures of it. After the rain stopped we enjoyed the sun and the ocean swimming before we headed on our last Zodiac back to the Sea Voyager.
Before we anchored in Los Sueños Marina, we enjoyed presentation by Gustavo Abarca on Costa Rica History. Later in the afternoon, we met again at the bar-lounge for the “Photo Gallery” organized by our Photo Expedition Leaders Jack and Rikki Swenson, a slide show of the pictures that our guests wanted to share with us. As the sun set with a spectacular show in every tone of red, the Capitan of our vessel, Fernando Ramos, bid us farewell, “until our next voyage together”.
