Today we drove less than a kilometer to Sanctuario Ecologico. We were the only visitors and had the whole reserve to ourselves.
The forest here is being reestablished from an old banana plantation so is sparser and easier to see through. In addition it is lower so there is no hanging moss and lichen to block the canopy. On the downside there are no tree ferns either!
Taking the blue footpath we came across three agouti feeding in the forest litter. Then we encountered a magnificent bird which we saw again later and turned out to be a Blue-crowned Motmot.
Various viewpoints along the way looked over the Gulf of Nicoya, one being also visited by a large electric blue butterfly.
Later we saw a squirrel, more agouti and a waterfall.
After dark we went on a guided night hike and saw many sleeping birds in surprisingly low branches, a large pit viper snake in a tree, a large tarantula spider in a burrow, and a very somnolent two toed sloth in the fork of a branch.
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