{"id":2485,"date":"2014-03-29T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2014-03-30T09:18:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T14:18:51","slug":"costa-rica-part-2-river-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/2014\/03\/29\/costa-rica-part-2-river-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Rica: Part 2- river adventures (“Don’t cross the river, if you can’t swim the tide…”)"},"content":{"rendered":"

No visit to Costa Rica would be complete without visiting the fascinating rivers than run through the luscious rain forests. However, there are a wide variety of river adventures, some of which I would warmly endorse, whereas others – well I will let you judge…
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\nMe, on the rocks<\/p>\n

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The real river experiences are achieved by “safari floats” or quiet and slow moving dinghies or boats that move down the river with a guide and allow time to enjoy and view the wildlife. On our previous trip to Costa Rica 8 years ago, when our daughter was about 7 years old, on the Cano Negro River near the border with Nicaragua, the guide showed her this cute little trick:<\/p>\n

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and then, presto!
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This time, we floated down a different river. As demonstrated, this activity was more to my liking than the tubing…
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\nCute cayman<\/p>\n

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\nQuirky crocodile<\/p>\n

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\nHarried (blue) heron<\/p>\n

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\nattractive Amazon Kingfisher<\/p>\n

These were but a few of the delightful inhabitants of the river.<\/p>\n

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\nRemarkable river<\/p>\n

Howler monkeys (too far away for good photos), beautiful flowers:
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And miracles of miracles, we also saw the famous Jesus Christ Lizard (common basilisk), so named for his ability to scoot across the water, running rather than walking.
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No visit to Costa Rica would be complete without visiting the fascinating rivers than run through the luscious rain forests. However, there are a wide variety of river adventures, some of which I would warmly endorse, whereas others – well … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[402,1006,1016,1017,1018,1000],"class_list":["post-2485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-birds","tag-costa-rica","tag-flowers","tag-river","tag-travels","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}