I got a few more photos, but not really good enough to show (and maybe some of these neither!)
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Tarcoles River before flowing into the Pacific Ocean, an hour+ drive from Atenas.
Adjacent to Carara National Park, the last transitional rainforest in the Americas.
Tarcoles, Costa Rica |
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| Yellow-crowned Euphonia, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Amazon Kingfisher, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Boat-billed Heron, a better photo than shown first day.
Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Royal Tern, Tarcoles River Mouth, Costa Rica |
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| Black-crowned Night Heron, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Snowy Egret, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica
(With trash all around him!) |
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| White-tailed Hawk, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Brown Basilisk (Striped Basilisk), Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Mangrove Crab, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Juvenile American Crocodile, Tarcoles, Costa Rica |
See also my Costa Rica Birds PHOTO GALLERY
THE FUTURE OF TARCOLES RIVER?
“That’s what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.”
― Carl Hiaasen, Flush
I’m hoping that won’t happen to Tarcoles River, but during Dry Season it is full of tourists coming to see the crocodiles and what is worse, the government is building two hydroelectric dams upstream on the Tarcoles River. Plus it has already been labeled “the most polluted river in Costa Rica” as many Central Valley towns dump their sewage and industrial waste into it. Wildness is slowly disappearing everywhere, even in one of the “green” countries! And the lack of rain thus far in this year’s rainy season has been shocking to me!
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