Day 4: A Day in the Life

Wednesday, Day 4 began with Lauren waking up to the sound of a coati in the hallway of her dorm having breakfast with the honey mixtures. After rescuing Diana 2 and stealing back the mixtures and storing them in her room, she made her way to her own breakfast.  Outside of the mess hall, Lea was the first one, practically beating down the door for her Costa Rican coffee.  The group gathered for our daily morning fuel, which gave us the energy to venture to Lower San Luis.  

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We separated into our sites and started our bee killing mission. Under the hot sun of the lowlands, JoAnn caught her first orchard bee! Chris focused on taking more pictures for his collection and Diana 1 sat longing for Cookie. 

 


Derek was busy doing his part to promote agroforestry and conserve the biodiversity of Costa Rica and basically save the world.  

As the day progressed and heated up we moved on to our second site where Susan begged to join our group.  At the next site, Errol made friends with abuela’s orange kitty and master catcher Diana 2 teamed up with Cesar to try to outdo the whole group. All were on the edge of their seats to see how this bee-off was going to turn out.  As “Beezar” Cesar began to see the Mainer-Diana’s bee wrangling skills he decided to put some questionable practices into play: scooping bees off her back and snaking them out from under her nose. All of Evie and Sergio’s people know who the true winner is. 

Upon returning to the biological reserve, we immediately set out for our cloud forest hike with our awesome tour guide, Sergio.  The group saw incredible wildlife that included, a tarantula, millipedes, a weevil, white collared trogons, and a host of epiphytes. Errol wanted to hold all the wildlife but we limited him to only holding the millipede. 




We reached the continental divide and our principal photographer, Danilsa, executed another fantastic picture of the group.  

It was a full day of adventure and even though we were as exhausted as our friend - the green pit viper, we all locked in on scientist Frannie’s exciting presentation on her research. 



xoxo, 

Pura Vida 




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