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Monteverde--The Cloud Forest

The mist rolls in


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​Flying across the Jungle

Oh my gosh!  The zipline at the Selvatura park was amazing, awesome, so fun.  I could go on.  There were 14 segments.  The last was 1 kilometer and Quinton and I were required to do it tandem--it is so long a single person's weight isn't enough to make it to the end.  I'm sorry I didn't have my camera, but he thick leather gloves, and the fact I was clinging 2-handed the whole time to my harness meant I didn't have any free hands to take photos.  

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My Quetzl  Picture


Every walk through a rain forest, every bus ride, was accompanied by scanning for the long list of animals the guides were "required" to sight for us in such a manner that we could photograph the wild life.  Our guide for this walk through the Selvatura park, a privately owned rain forest, gave us the prized quetzl bird.  (I circled it in case you can't find it.)  The local guide who led our group had a spotting scope mounted on a tripod (all the guides seemed to have this equipment).  He found the bird and let us look through the scope.  I finally gave up and just walked along the hanging bridge we were on and took a series of photos with my camera pointed at the jungle.  I was amazed that evening when I downloaded my pictures to find I had gotten not 1 but 2 fairly good shots of the birds.  I used this amateur photography technique several times with mixed success.  

Frankly, I was frustrated.  We walked through a few miles of dense forest.  In all that time we saw one quetzl.  I know they are rare, but this was a protected huge sanctuary.  I could have done better at a zoo.  

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