The last time I visited the Poas Volcano (family Christmas vacation several years ago) it was shrouded in clouds.  This morning I arrived at the park the moment it opened and was rewarded for the effort with clear skies and a magnificent view of the steaming crater. As you will learn in a subsequent post, two of my three cameras were stolen and with them many photos from my first two days including some magnificent wide angle shots of the volcano. Fortunately, I still have a few telephoto shots taken with my third camera.

As the clouds started to roll over the mountains, I made a beeline for the La Pas Waterfall Garden successfully beating the tourist buses coming from San Jose.  In addition to the magnificent falls (all photos lost), I was overwhelmed with the wildlife to be found in sanctuaries throughout the park. Thankfully, I did not lose my frog photos which were among my favorites of the visit. The frogs are contained in a large sanctuary in which they are free to roam.  For a small tip the frog minder was happy to show me where each of the species could be found.

The variety of bird species which can be found in Costa Rica is amazing.  Here is but a small sample from day one.

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I lost all of my butterfly photos (hundreds) except for these two.

My destination for the evening was the La Selva BIological Research Station.  I drove like a full blooded Costa Rican, which is to say, insanely fast, so that I would arrive before the 5pm registration cutoff.  I stopped only to photograph a group of white nose coati that were foraging by the side of the road.

I arrived at La Selva just in time and dined with visiting students and resident researchers before going out on a solo night walk in the rain forest.  Other than being very scary, I was assured by the experts that there were really only two dangers to be concerned about, poisonous snakes and bullet ants.  Staying on the path and keeping it illuminated with a flashlight solves for snakes and not touching anything or sitting down solves for ants. Had I chickened out, I would have missed these photos of a two-toed sloth and her baby taken by the illumination of my flashlight.