I grabbed both these photos off of the internet, because they were too quick for me to get photos.
Our next stop was the souvenir shop. While there, the clerk indicated that there were some white-faced monkeys outside, and did we want to see them? Of course we did, and raced outside to see one in the low branches just across the parking lot. The primates just kept moving, no sitting around for those guys. We followed them from tree to tree, hoping to get a good photo.
We were pretty exhausted from our hike. We had been on our feet from 6:00 to 3:00, so back in our room at the El Bosque Hotel, we rested, showered, and then snacked on banana whole wheat muffins, then our tastes deteriorated, and we devoured taco chips, and a Coke. Being in the heat and humidity of the Tropics drive us to drinking two or three cans a day.
At the El Bosque Restaurant, our evening meal consisted of a big helping of Creole Chicken. It cost us $11 CND.
The next day we didn’t get such an early start, because our funds were starting to get very low (only $3 CND), so my first order of business was to get some more money. That meant making the 6 kilometer hike, up and down the steep hills back to St. Elena where there was a bank. With our funds topped up, I hiked back to join my wife at the hotel, then together, we made the three and a half hike up to the Nature Reserve.
On my way back from the bank, I saw a large Blue Morpho Butterfly, another sight we wanted to see in the jungles. The Blue Morpho is big one, with a 12 cm (4.7 inch) wingspan and is incredibly beautiful with it deep iridescent blue wings. When I told my wife about spotting one, she was very envious, but her envy didn’t last long, because as we hiked up to the Cloud Forest Reserve we spotted another one fluttering by.
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