Slideshow Index: Poas Volcano & Rio Sarapiqui

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• Our tour guide at a coffee field
• Kathy with a coffee bean
• We had a good look at a coffee tree field
• Our tour group on the way to the Poas Volcano
• Steam on the main caldera of Volcan Poas
• Great view of the surrounding mountains
• Some of our tour group
• A closeup of the crater steam
• Another view of the crater
• Barbara Decker, missionary in Venezuela, & her boss
• Tree roots along the way
• View between Poas Volcano and the Sarapiqui river
• Another view of the countryside
• Our tour guide with a Blue Morpho butterfly
• Mariposa informacion
• Note the fake eye to scare off predators
• There were many different butterflies at the La Paz gardens
• The painted ox cart is a symbol of Costa Rica
• Hummingbirds at the La Paz gardens
• Here's a fairly large one
• Hummingbird information
• Kathy with her snake stick for the walk to the La Paz falls
• The Fer-de-Lance, very dangerous, and lots of them in Costa Rica
• A Costa Rica squirrel having a feast
• One of the multi-colored poisonous frogs of Costa Rica
• Interesting green leaf frog
• On the way to the falls
• La Paz Waterfalls
• Kathy with her snake stick
• The trail bridge
• The river to the falls
• It was loud and wet here
• Kathy next to the falls
• A viewing spot at the bottom of the falls
• The falls from a distance
• We saw many different birds on the Sarapiqui river
• A view from our boat of the swollen river
• Birds nesting in the river tree branches
• One of several iguanas that we saw
• A cayman waiting for prey along the river banks
• KLN Photos -- A coffee field on the way to Poas
• Typical coffee field between 800 and 1400 meters elevation
• We had a nice breakfast along the way
• Steam over the main crater of the Poas Volcano
• It was a little chilly that morning (jackets)
• Volcano information
• We had good weather this time
• Evidence of leaf cutter ants at work
• The trail to the volcano
• A tree formation along the way
• Village between Poas and the La Paz Waterfall
• A strange flower
• This is the most famous of Costa Rican butterflies, the Blue Morpho
• A typical painted ox cart (symbolic of Costa Rica)
• I got to pose in the cart
• There were tons of hummingbirds in the La Paz gardens
• There are both small and large varieties of hummingbirds (colibri) here
• Hummingbird information
• Scene in the La Paz gardens area
• We had a very good buffet lunch here
• The garden trails
• La Paz waterfalls
• Lots of mist in the area
• It was a steep and slippery trail down to the base
• Along the side of the falls
• Kathy is carrying a snake stick. It's not for balance.
• On to the Sarapiqui river which runs into Nicarauga
• Heavy rains caused the river to run high
• Those spots on the tree trunk are small bats
• One of several iguanas spotted along the river ride
• A cayman can be seen on the bank
• That's what our excursion boat looked like
• A howler monkey in the middle of the picture
• Another view of a howler monkey
• Another iguana
• Trees overhanging the river
• An iguana on the bank
• Costa Rica is a bird lover's paradise
• Another brightly colored bird on the tree
• These fellows entertained us at the river tour stop
• Kathy and tour group members