onward to glorious campanario!!!

Arenal - what a view!

Miruna gazing out towards the water.

campanario is only accessible by boat (or foot if you're up for a long long hike!)

Mangrove forests - we spent some time climbing around these. Mangrove roots are incredibly strong.


Campanario - a private reserved located close to corcovado national park and cano island.

Faculty housing (and me since i was the only grad student and a good 10 years older than everyone!).

super cool twisty, old vines.

a little frog!

the forest - so incredibly dense.

This guy had just emerged from it's shell. the cicadas were INCREDIBLY loud in the forest. the dense vegetation amplified what we normally here in PA on a cicada year.

strangler figs These trees actually slowly choke and kill the trees upon which they climb around. How can this happen?

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enormous butressed roots! check out how tiny colleen looks next to them!

Eduardo - the jaguar expert! a brilliant (and SO NICE) man who's done some spectacular work.


The bat tree. we climbed into the hole above - two at a time and hung out with the bats. it was pitch black to headlamps were a must! bottom right: tom hanging out in the "bat tree" to provide perspective as to how big this hollow tree was!

Left: PONCHO the cuati! he hung around and made himself at home at campanario. right: passion flowers up by the kiosko.

left: jesus christ lizard - named so for their ability to run across the top of water! pretty cool. right: another gigantic unidentified insect.

the itsy bitsy spider - except this one was about the size of my hand totally spread out - if not larger and quite colorful!

brown pelicans were abundant.


Glorious - yes! and you haven't even seen the parrots yet! stay tuned for MORE. yes MORE!!!