Our experiences during the sabbatical year
Yesterday, Friday the 13th, we got unexpected news. Osa Conservation went into lockdown. Because of the Coronavirus pandemic. It meant that everybody had one day to choose whether to work and be confined to Piro station until the end of April, or to work from home. … More Not just the cat got sick
Deze week hebben Cristina en ik ons in een nieuw vrijwilligerswerkritme gewerkt. De dagen krijgen een andere regelmaat en het werk schiet op. Frank gaat op schildpadpatrouille. De zonsondergangen zijn weer niet mis, maar met de bus is van alles mis. … More Week 8. Nieuwe routines en schildpad patrouilles
This post is also in English. Para evitar grandes decepciones, debo avisar que este blog no trata de túneles del tiempo o máquinas que permitan trasladarse a otra época. No. No. … More Viajando en el tiempo
To avoid major disappointments, I must warn you that this blog is not about time travelling machines that allow you to move to another era. Nope. … More Time travelling
When we were in Monteverde we did a birdwatching tour with a professional bird guide. He has almost thirty years of birdwatching experience, is well known and more than lived up to his reputation! Through the tour, I had the chance to do some bird-watcher watching so that I can report the characteristics of the expert birdwatcher. … More The expert birdwatcher
So, we got up on our first day in the jungle fully energized. After the long trip from Monteverde to Osa, it felt good to have a relatively good night sleep and wake up to the sounds of the real jungle. Which are many. If the howler monkeys woke us up at 0530 in Guanacaste, here … More First day in the jungle: Red Macaws, toucans, swarming bees and the fire brigade.
This post in Google English Este post en español de Google Afgelopen woensdag was een lange dag in de auto. Monteverde was erg groen, maar na een half uur de berg af rijden waren we weer terug in het droge klimaat, waar ik zoals ik vorige week al schreef, voldoende van genoten had. Tijdens de … More Week 7. Osa en Piro
Well, okay, back in Sweden, we never watched regular tv anyways, but we were regular consumers of Netflix and iMovie. During weekdays, we would eat dinner on the sofa while watching an episode of a series on Netflix. Movies during the weekend. In Costa Rica we decided to do without, and our internet access does not allow it. Have we been missing it so far? Not for a second. … More The bliss of no mind-numbing TV
Have a look at this new photo album with photos of among others, the resplendent Quetzal, Motmots, humming birds and a mammal.
Esta semana hemos estado un poco ajetreados. De ahí que hayamos tenido el blog un poco descuidado. Con el fin del mes de Febrero, llegaba también el fin de nuestras vacaciones en la playa y teníamos que ponernos de nuevo en camino. Esta vez en dirección a la región que muchos consideran la más salvaje … More Playa, montaña y selva…en la misma semana
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