Sunday February 15
We had a “lazy start” this morning: breakfast at 6:30 and the first activity (birdwatching from a tower) at 7:00. But about 6:45 the local family of giant river otters came out to fish along the shore, so that took priority over everything else! Once we got to the tower we saw two kinds of monkeys and a number of bird species, including three kinds of macaws. Later in the morning we took a canoe ride up a different creek than yesterday’s, stopping to watch the otters again on the way. We were treated with a sighting of five Red Howler monkeys, including a baby.
In the afternoon we went out by canoe again. This time we took a short walk in the woods, to see Noisy (or Spix’s) Night Monkeys. While similarly cute, these are a different species to the Panamanian Night Monkeys we saw in the Darien. A Fer-de-lance (a highly venomous snake) was curled up along the trail to add to the excitement. We walked single file along the far edge of the trail, as this is not a snake you want to make nervous!
We returned to the canoe and retraced our “steps” from yesterday afternoon along the main creek, spotting a two-toed sloth and some new birds. We were grateful for the strength of our canoe paddlers to get us home ahead of a thunderstorm.
Pictured: Red Howler monkey family, juvenile Zigzag Heron, fer-de-lance, white-fronted capuchin monkey
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