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We begin our retirement by heading to flora and fauna.
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1000places > MONTEVERDE, COSTA RICA - Hiking back from town and looking like a real naturalist.
1000places > MONTEVERDE, COSTA RICA - We joined a guided hike through the cloud forest. Positioned atop the Continental Divide, the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve extends down both the Caribbean and Pacific slopes creating a half dozen distinct "micro-climates."
1000places > MONTEVERDE, COSTA RICA - We saw a few birds through the guide's spotting scope - but most of the wildlife had better sense than to sit out in the rain posing for us. We did see a lot of rainforest flora, however, including this heliconia.
1000places > MONTEVERDE, COSTA RICA - Among the flora and fauna we saw on our hike through the cloud forest was this bird (hummingbird?). We really have to get better in identifying our plants and animals.
1000places > MONTEVERDE, COSTA RICA - Now we know these are hummingbirds (the feeder is a good clue).
1000places > JACO BEACH, COSTA RICO - After several days in the dampness of the rain-drenched Avenal volcano region and the Monteverde cloud forest, we were glad to see sunlight as we arrived at our next stop: The Hotel Arenal Pacifico in Jaco Beach on the Pacific coast.
1000places > JACO BEACH, COSTA RICO - We soon discovered that the hotel - on the outskirts of the resort town - had so few guests that we generally had the two pools to ourselves. (But we also discovered that the hotel had shut down its restaurant and even worse, its bar!)
1000places > JACO BEACH, COSTA RICO - Jeanne immediately took to a poolside deck chair to catch up on her reading.
1000places > JACO BEACH, COSTA RICO - And I soon joined her with one of the paperbacks I had brought for the trip.
MONTEVERDE, COSTA RICA - Hiking back from town and looking like a real naturalist.
> MONTEVERDE, COSTA RICA - Hiking back from town and looking like a real naturalist.
MONTEVERDE, COSTA RICA - Hiking back from town and looking like a real naturalist.
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