Got a little lost with all the different names of birds/ butterflies and plants so if I’ve got it wrong or anyone has a clue what they are let me know!
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Coffee, Chocolate and Sugar Cane Tour at Don Juan Plantation
This is allegedly Don Juan
The new human leg variety of coffee plant
Coffee Plant Fruit
Coffee bean is only 20% of the fruit
Then you have to take off the pulp
Then you do something else
Then your roast it
Then there it is!
The process explained again as I was much too interested in getting to the chocolate part!
Missing my Coca-Cola so glad to see a picture of one
Banana flower
Cocoa fruit
The cocoa seeds – they look so slime
And taste like slime orange
Then you ferment them – these smelt so bad – enough to put you off chocolate for life
Then you dry them and as if by magic
And magic occurs
as when you open it there is chocolate!
Grint it up and add some sugar
Add vanilla or chilli – and taste – delicious
Sugar cane
Ron helping to juice the sugar cane for a yummy drink
Walking through the coffee plantation
Curi Cancha Reserve – Female Quetzal
Beautiful male Quetzal – another one ticked off the list!
Male Quetzal
Male Quetzal
Male Quetzal
View over Pacific Ocean from Curi Cancha Reserve, Monteverde
Green Hermit Hummingbird
Green Violetea Hummingbird
Hummingbird
Hummingbird
Green-crowned Brilliant Hummingbird
Green-crowned Brilliant Hummingbird
Green Violetear Hummingbird
Magenta-throated Woodstar Hummingbird
Magenta-throated Woodstar Hummingbird
Looking like its sitting on Fabians head
Magenta-throated Woodstar Hummingbird
Hummingbird
Green Violetear Hummingbird
Green-crowned Brilliant Hummingbird
Green-crowned Brilliant Hummingbird
Green-crowned Brilliant Hummingbird
Suaveolens hallucinogenic plant
Suaveolens hallucinogenic flower
In my ignorance I thought all trees had rings but rings are caused by seasons and Costa Rica has no seasons so no rings in the trees
View over Pacific Ocean
View over Pacific Oean
Tarantula on the Santamaria Night Walk
Leaf-cutter ants
Can you spot the animal? No I couldn’t either – Santamaria Night Walk
Some bird – I lost track of all the different names!
Cricket
Two-toed sloth
Two-toed sloth
Nine-banded Armadillo
Camera lens steaming up in the butterfly garden
Butterfly cocoons – La Selvatura Park
Butterflies hatching and drying their wings
Bamboo Page/ Dido Longwing Butterfly
Great Owl Butterfly
Great Owl Butterfly
Great Owl Butterfly
Great Owl Butterfly
Great Owl Butterfly
Great Owl Butterfly
Great Owl Butterfly
Blue Morpho Butterfl
Rusty-tipped Page butterfly
Blue Morpho Butterfly
Blue Morpho Butterfly
Banded Peacock Butterfly
Scarlet macaw
Banded Peacock Butterfly
Ruby-spotted Swallowtail Butterfly
Ruby-spotted Swallowtail Butterfly
Tiger Heliconian Butterfly
Blue Morpho & Blue-Banded Purplewing butterflies
Blue Morpho Butterfly
Great Owl Butterfly
Termite Nest
Heliconia
Great Kiskadee?
Slate-throated Redstart
Slate-throated Redstart
Slate-throated Redstart
Slate-throated Redstart
Slate-throated Redstart
Mountain-gem & Stripe-tailed Hummingbirds
Violet Sabrewing Hummingbird
Mountain-gem hummingbird
Violet Sabrewing Hummingbird
Violet Sabrewing Hummingbird
Violet Sabrewing Hummingbird
Violet Sabrewing Hummingbird
Violet Sabrewing Hummingbird
Green-crowned Brilliant Hummingbird
Violet Sabrewing Hummingbird
Violet Sabrewing Hummingbird
Violet Sabrewing Hummingbird
Violet Sabrewing Hummingbird
Violet Sabrewing Hummingbird
Violet Sabrewing Hummingbird
Green-crowned Brilliant Hummingbird
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