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   Greetings! Here is my trip diary from my 2005 trip to Costa Rica with Costa Rica Herping Adventures (Jim Kavney's Hiss-n-Things). Jim provides much better trip summaries than I ever could, so for the bulk of the detail regarding the trip, please go to his web site: www.hiss-n-things.com. There were six of us in the trip. Jim Kavney was our fearless leader. He herps in this area twice a year, and organized another great trip this time. øyvind Syrrist is a young Norwegian who came all the way to Costa Rica just to find snakes - now that's dedication! Steve Sundheimer is a Floridian with a great sense of humor. And Mark and Donna Mazur are Pennsylvanians who have now added Costa Rica to their long list of herping destinations. It was a great group and we all had a great time searching for snakes and other rainforest animals.
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spending one night in San Jose getting oriented, we picked up our
rental cars and headed to the west coast: to a destination called
Villa Lapas, located next to Carera Biological Reserve and only a
few miles from the surf town of Jaco. From here we hiked on
numerous trails leading directly from the property, did some "road
herping" at night along some local roads, and took side-trips to
both Carera Biological Reserve and Manuel Antonia National Park.
We were all surprised at the dearth of snakes and other animals seen early on (compared to previous trips), but by the end of the trip I don't think anyone was disappointed. Check out the links to the left for some of my pictures of individual species seen and photographed. (note: not all have been identified as of yet) There are also links to species seen on prior trips of mine, as well as some miscellaneous and people-shots of this trip. You can always access all of my pictures and trip diaries through my home page: Pinnipal Productions. Thanks for visiting! Shawn smallan @ comcast.net |
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