Five AM wake up at the tent camp. They have desayuno ready for us at 5:30, rice and beans with fresh Costa Rican coffee. We are on the boat by six, beach loading as always here. The one hour ride south to Sirena Station in the sunrise is glorious. We cut through several Cabos where Boobies, Frigate Birds, and Pelicans are feeding.
We are met on the beach by our guide Carlos who gives us a run down for our 10 kilometer hike for the day. Things start out pretty slow as we wind through the morning rain forest with a few heronsand a trogon. Lots of interesting info on the ecology of this special place.
After stoping for lunch things begin to pick up with crocodiles and a fun bunch of spider monkeys. Then more spider monkeys and a rowdy bunch of howler monkeys. There's a host of army ants attacking insects on a tree with 3 different kinds of an birds snatching the escaping insect. As we return to the ocean We sit exhausted on some logs strewn on the high dune under some coconnut trees. Carlos asks for quiet and takes us mysteriously 2 at a time into the brush. Amazingly he leads us to within a fewfeet of a sleeping young Tapir. As many of you know these are very rare endangered animals.
What a great great to end out long day before loading up and returning to our tent camp.
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