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| All the students walk to and from school, are clean cut, polite, friendly |
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT SPELLING BEE
Tomorrow, Thursday, 30 July 2015, I’m starting the day as a “Native English Speaker” at Colegio Liceo de Atenas, the big high school near where I live, to serve as a judge and maybe to pronounce the English words for their English Language Classes Spelling Bee. They have 3 full-time English Teachers in a Spanish-speaking school! A big high school!
How fun this will be! Even though I was going to leave early on my birding adventure, I can’t turn down an opportunity like this to relate to the community! I’m trying hard to not be like most of the segregated expats who only associate with each other. I didn’t move to Central America to spend all my time with North Americans! I’m here to get away from them! 🙂 (No offense now! I still like some of you! But I sure like the culture down here better.) So I will leave for Carara at 11:00 after the Spelling Bee! FYI the school Facebook Page. or School Video and Google Images of the school or just Google the school and you will see pages for the students to do homework, etc. You will get a report from me on this for sure!
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| Hope to get a better shot than this one on my 2011 Tarcoles River Cruise as a day trip from the Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship, our FBN Panama Canal Cruise |
CARARA NATIONAL PARK
Now for the planned trip: I have a rent car and I’m spending two nights at Hotel Villa Lapas at
Tarcoles, the closest one to the Carara Park and have scheduled a 5-hour guided tour of the park with hopes of Scarlet Macaw photos. This is mating season in the second most populous Scarlet Macaw forest of the country, so maybe some cute, cuddly couples to photograph! 🙂 But regardless, there will be many birds and much else to photograph! And if not raining too much, I will hike to the tallest waterfall in the country or at least see it from a distance at a nearby botanical gardens. I’ve done the nearby Tarcoles River cruise 3 times, but that is always another option if I get bored – ha, ha!
Tico Times article on Carara National Park
Costa Rica Bureau Page on park (not sure if it is official park page, if any)
One National Parks Page on the park (maybe not official)
A Guide Service Page and the Wikipedia Page is good
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| And hopefully more than overfly shots like this one I made in 2009 at Corcovado National Park in the South on Osa Peninsula. |
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” ― John Muir, Our National Parks
And my PHOTO GALLERY of Costa Rica Birds if you want more! 🙂