Night Walk

While visiting the Tirimbina Reserve, we went on a night walk through the forest.  Many animals that live in the rain forest  are nocturnal, which means they come out at night.  The purpose of the night walk was to see wildlife that we cannot find during the day.  To start of the walk we crossed the Sarapiqui  River and were at the canopy level on a very long suspension bridge. During the walk we saw animals like crickets, spiders, cockroaches, bats, a tarantula, frrogs, a toad, a butterfly, beetles, and a pit viper.

   This Tarantula was hiding in a hole on the side of the trail.

Geckos are not actually native to the rainforest but today we can easily find them.

Amphibians like to come and lay their eggs after it has rained.

What seems to us like a very large ant hill is actually one of the smaller ones found in the rainforest.

-Kai