day 3: those damned canadians

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in the morning the howler monkeys sound less like the screetching in 2001: a space odyssey and more like the gutteral moans of imagined yetis.

we went on a kayak trip through the mangroves which was lovely, desite the best efforts of canadians to ruin it. from the get go: “do you have asymmetrical paddles? how about feathered paddles? you do have feathered paddles? ah, but are they asymmetrical? i prefer an asymmetrical feathered paddle, myself. the best kind are the ones that you can break apart at the middle and adjust yourself…” mind you, this is BEFORE WE HAD EVEN LEFT THE TOUR OFFICE. we tried to ignore the canadian former kayak tour guide and listen instead to laura, our costa rican present kayak tour guide as she described the ecosystem of the different types of mangroves while we paddled through the calm streams. the water is amazingly warm: mild just like bath water.

seen:

• scarlet macaw
  
• cane toad
  
• baby iguana
  
• great egret
  
• blue heron
  
• frigate bird

Posted at January 8, 2007 8:03 PM