Well we are back from our trip to the northern part of Costa Rica!
It was a great time with lots of new things to see and do. It is very rural at the northern part of the country, lots of jungle and all the things that you would expect to find there! Below is a picture of the back yard of the ranch where we stayed. It is absolutely beautiful country with lots of rolling hills and mountains. Right out the back door and across the yard is a larger than life volcano called Miravalles
The people in the villages were extremely friendly, not a car went by with out some one waving or shouting out a greeting. The closest town to where we stayed is called Fortuna, if you look it up on a map you will see that it is close to the top of the country near the Nicaraguan border.
The place where we stayed is on a ninety four acre parcel that is used as a base for teams that come from all over the globe. The teams are comprised of all different types of people who come for various reasons. Some are there for adventure tours, others to help out in the local community, others are there to do practical ministry with the churches or community groups. If you go to the web site http://www.banyanresources.org/ click on "Going The Distance Ministries" and then click on "Costa Rica Project" tab you will see the lay out of the property, the projects that are in the works and what this property is intended to be used for, it is a great project!! (You can click on the above link and it will take you directly there!!)
The first day there we toured the property and saw many different animals and amazing sites. Above is a picture of an animal called a Kinkajou . We were very fortunate to see it as they usually only come out at night and are very shy, many people who we talked to who lived there had never seen one. We were walking through the property with Jeremy our new found friend, when he spotted it running along the ground and then taking to a tree. We ran along following it as it leaped from tree to tree at amazing speed. At one point it stopped high up in the canopy of the trees and gave us a clear shot to get this picture.
You may have noticed that we figured out how to get the pictures incorporated into the body of the blog rather than to the side only. This will allow us to keep the pictures up with each blog and then change them each time we post. You can click on "older" posts or "newer" posts and read the earlier or later blogs and see the pictures that were attached to them, this will be handy if you have missed one or wanted to go back and view previous pictures.
Here are a few pictures of some of the things we saw when we were on our short trip. In this region there are lots of spiders, big bugs, huge frogs and toads, snakes, vipers, iguanas, lizards of all types, parrots, birds of every shape and size including toucans, anteaters, armadillos, kinkajous , tigers, ocelots, jaguars, and the list goes on!!
If you were having this guy for supper he would probably feed about four!!
This is a very big bug, he was about four inches long!! Notice the pincher's on the front of his head.
Well we will be signing out for now! We will update you and let you know what we are up to!!
Blessings!!
Doug n Gayla
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