Costa Rica from a distance

Some shots from the airplane as I flew along the Pacific Coast 

Google Earth overview of Costa Rica

 The Talamanca mnts. running along the spine of the country

 Beaches just south of Domincal

 Sierpe mangoves with Mt. Chirripo in the distance

 Sierpe mangroves

Beach along the Osa peninsula and the mouth of Gulfo Dulce

The Osa

Corcovado from the air

 Ocean front in the Osa

Los Patos waterfall

 Great Tinamou

Bicolored antbird

Central American Tapir

Thyroptera bat - notice those suction discs!

Bat Falcon Eats Hummingbird

(photos by Jim Wolfe)

Along the Rio San Juan and further south

The Rio San Juan from El Castillo

Sunset along the River

 The Rio San Juan

 Mealy Amazon Parrot

 Splendid Leaf Frog

 Cloudy slug-eater snake

 "El Castillo" the fort built along the Rio San Juan in 1675 to protect Nicaragua from pirates

Dwarf gecko

New snake in the neighborhood

Sibon dimidiatus

An endemic

Black-bellied wood-quail

A viper for the students

Eyelash viper