Day 9
Saturday
Justin telling a story on the bus
Today we got up very early and went to Puerto Viejo. We stopped at an internet cafe and supermarket. We all got snacks and drinks at the supermarket. We then went on down to the river. Many of us paid 100 colones to use the restroom. There is one unique Costa Rican custom that I have failed to mention thus far. They believe that all educated, cultured people do not dispose of their toilet paper in the toilet, but rather in the trash can beside the toilet. That didn’t go down very well with a lot of us and we continued to use the toilet unless a sign explicitly instructed us to use the trash can.
We hopped on a boat and took a river cruise. We saw black howler monkeys, alligators, birds of all sorts, and lots of “moos” (as we call them, because we could never remember the Spanish word for cow—vaca). We went for two hours, all the way to the Nicaraguan border. There we stopped and ate a picnic lunch. Then we turned around and went back. That night we ate supper at each of our host’s place.
Descending to the riverside to our boat
Riding along on the river cruise
Black howler monkey
Alligator
Picnic near Nicaraguan border
Lizard at picnic
Urie sitting by the riverside
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Boats similar to the one we rode in
River cruise
Assistant director Benjamin sitting in the front of the boat
A dog swimming in the river
Leo, our tour coordinator for the second half of the trip, making a call
A variety of poison dart frog that finally held still enough for a picture on my Uncle Phil’s boot after Phil, Michael, and I chased it around the room for a while
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