may beetle, weevil, turkey vulture, tody flycatcher
Mammals
were they white-lipped peccaries, Corcovado pamphlet says these have disappeared from rest of Pacific coast.
Butterflies
Birds
- Scarlet Macaw
- Toucan
- American White Ibis
- Anhinga
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Plain-breasted Ground-dove
- Turkey Vulture
- Clay-colored Thrush
- Nicaraguan Grackle
- Blue-and-white Swallow
- White-ringed Flycatcher
- Mangrove Black Hawk?
Medicinal plants
- indigo
- Bear Paw Fern
- Coca (which we could’ve chewed or made into tea to numb the pain from hiking)
Insects
- Harlequin Beetle
- May Beetle
- army ant
- Copiphora rhinoceros
- leafcutter ant
- Gasteracantha cancriformis
- American Pelecinid Wasp
Crustaceans
mangrove crab
red crabs
Stayed at the Marriott in San José for the last two night of our trip. From sleeping in the forest bitten by mosquitos, covered in grime, with all sorts of nasty, pungent odors streaming from our pores to the seat of luxury.
Expenses
- $276.42 plane fare: JFK-SJO depart 3/10/10 return 3/22/10
- $96 two nights at Marriott
- $50 Columbia nylon-polyester long-sleeved shirt
- $44 North Face nylon cutoff trousers
- 2x $13 wool socks
- $7 30% DEET insect repellent
- $1.19 alcohol-based hand sanitizer
- $10 50 SPF
- $163.48 REI Mars 85L frame pack
- $44.31 silk sleep sack
- 2x $3.39 pepperoni stick
- $6.69 pecans
- 1lb of saltines
- $1.50 anti-diarrheal pills
- $1.50 antihistamine pills
- $35 water shoes
- 2x $8 freeze dried hiking meals
- 2x $2.99 craisins
- dried apricots, prunes, persimmons
- granola
- almonds
- $5.49 beef jerky
- $3.19 string cheese
- $2.19 peanut butter
- $3.29 nutella
- $2.39 tuna
- hydrocortisone
Our friend Jonny created a large, complicated spreadsheet to sort out the mess of who owed who how much.