Day 3 - December 18 - Tortuguero

We got up at 5:30am to take a motor tour of one of the canals, Cano Harold We got up this early as that is the best time to view the wild life. We saw White Faced Monkeys, Iguanas, numerous types of birds, Caymans.

Here is a map of our route:

The part of the map that shows "Tree Blockage" used to be the main route of these tours. The tree fell this past season blocking off the larger canal. The tours now go on the smaller canal as shown on the map.

The "Sign" is this picture here:

After we returned to the lodge, we had breakfast, then the kayaks were loaded into a motor boat, and we returned to the start of the Cano Harold, and then got into the kayaks and went up the canal. We went much further than we did earlier in the morning, kayaking for 1 hour up the canal. On the way back, we kayaked all the way to the lodge.

In the afternoon, we went to the ocean. We did not swim as we were warned off. There are sharks and barracudas in the water. As our guide Jimmy said, if the locals don't swim, you should not swim either. At 4pm we walked into the small town of Tortuguero and did a bit of souvenir shopping.

After dinner, Mike and some of the others in the group went back to the ocean beach and made a campfire.

Pictures from the early morning tour of the canals: