Thursday was another fun-filled, HOT day – it was so hot, even the locals were complaining! This time we were in Costa Rica, and our day trip took us into the rainforest where we rode a tram up into the upper and lower canopy. There was so much to see and to listen to, it was just incredible. Aside from many plants and flowers we got to see some vultures and hawks, and on our ride back down, the monkeys came out! They were so cute, just like the monkey from Outbreak but without the airborne disease! We then did a walking tour of the facility where they showed us some of the many different things that grow there, and we also saw several iguanas, some bats, and their collection of poisonous snakes. After a tasty lunch of traditional Costa Rican food we got back on our bus and drove to the Tarcoles River where we boarded a boat for a tour of the Mangrove Swamp. On our two hour boat ride we saw many different species of birds including a pair of scarlet macaws, and we saw several small crocodiles sunning themselves along the shore and swimming through the water. Right at the end of our tour we found a HUGE crocodile that our guide told us was 80 or 90 years old – he came up out of the water right next to me and he was just enormous. He actually scared me when he came out of the murky water at the side of the boat, but it was so cool! Two words......Lake Placid!
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