{"id":650,"date":"2016-04-22T07:37:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T11:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/?p=650"},"modified":"2016-04-22T07:37:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T11:37:51","slug":"day-7-wednesday-march-23-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/?p=650","title":{"rendered":"Day 7: Wednesday March 23, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

We began returning eastward. Our bus took us through cattle ranches, which we found fascinating. At home, all the\u00a0cattle are of the same breed, while here, many different breeds of cattle graze together. On this very hot \u00a0day, they were seeking shade under a tree \u00a0rather than grazing.<\/p>\n

\"DSF_1238\"<\/a>Our next activity was a Jungle Safari Cruise\u00a0on the Tarcoles River. It’s amazing how different our two river cruises were. This one featured crocodiles, lots \u00a0and lots of crocodiles, birds, lots and lots of birds, \u00a0but fortunately, no wading \u00a0humans! If you love birds, this is the place to see them! The species we saw were:\u00a0magnificent frigatebird, anhinga, wood stork, roseate spoonbill, yellow crowned night heron, little blue heron, great egret, green heron, great blue heron, tricolored heron, cattle egret, bare throated tiger heron, \u00a0northern jacana, whimbrel, turkey vulture,\"DSF_1377\"<\/a> willet, spotted sandpiper, black vulture, mangrove black hawk, mangrove swallow, green kingfisher, great kiskadee, turquoise browed motmot, great tailed grackle, barn swallow, and white \u00a0ibis. Only I and the \u00a0the two children in our group (the best behaved children I have ever met!) \u00a0 actually kept track.<\/p>\n

\"DSF_1542\"<\/a>Onward we went to the San Bada Hotel, which is adjacent to Manuel Antonio National Park. The views \u00a0and the sounds from the windows of the upper floors of the hotel are spectacular. The hotel is \u00a0set among trees that house\u00a0many varieties\u00a0of birds as well as several species of monkeys. Many of our fellow tourists\u00a0saw and heard them from their windows.\u00a0\u00a0Unfortunately for us, our\u00a0room\u00a0was on the first floor, from which we had a view of the air conditioning condensers and the sound of them buzzing.<\/p>\n

We were advised to meet on the 6th floor of the hotel for a Happy Hour at 4:30 PM. In addition to the bar and the pool, the 6th floor featured\u00a0a \u00a0very long window with many chairs facing outward\u00a0for guests to observe the sunset.<\/p>\n

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The night was not completely clear, but nevertheless, the sunset was worth waiting for. Only one member of our group managed to fit in a swim, a shower, and a change of clothes before enjoying\u00a0cocktails and the sunset, and that was our octogenarian friend, Gloria.<\/p>\n

We were advised to use insect repellant, because mosquitoes \u00a0can come out at dusk. Having heard about Zika virus before we left home, we definitely followed that advice. \u00a0Only two of our fellow travelers, both men, \u00a0were bitten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We began returning eastward. Our bus took us through cattle ranches, which we found fascinating. At home, all the\u00a0cattle are of the same breed, while here, many different breeds of cattle graze together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-costarica-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}