Do you wanna iguana? by Jackie

I know that several of the other DSA travelers already wrote about our wonderful kayaking/snorkeling/biking day so I won’t say much more about these activities.  However, I did notice that the reef is definitely on the decline.  There was some coral bleaching and a lot of siltation that was smothering the reef.  Very sad.

Last night at La Tirimbina was incredible!  We went on our night hike with Jaime.  My group so a fer de lance, two hog nosed vipers, a pit viper, and several large brown toads with venom sacs behind their eyes.  We also say a bungee spider that drops down on a line of silk at high speed to catch its prey.  The forest was filled with lots of interesting night time sounds.  It was crazy cool to go over the suspension foot bridge over the roaring river.  When we went back over the bridge this morning we looked down and saw blue morpho butterflies, and we looked up and saw more howler monkeys.  Really cool!

Today we stopped at a store that was part market and part iguana rescue facility. We made friends with the large green iguanas.  They were really interesting.  They are accustomed to humans, so we could get quite close.