May 9th - a walk through Manuel Antonio National Park

OK, it's probably time to learn a little bit of blogging as I'm home now with good computer and Internet access. How do I insert a picture here? I don't know. Ah, I have to go from edit html to compose. OK, here's a try. Let me see if the description wraps around the picture. What we see here is the walkway

around the park. They limit the number of visitors in the park at any one time to about 70 people so as not to disturb the existing wildlife too much. We negotiated a guide just for the two of us so we could walk at our speed and not rush with a group. The many pebbles and stones on the ground are always a problem for Marlies as she's afraid of either stumbling or stepping on something.

The park itself showed much wildlife oblivious to our presence. Monkeys were up in the trees either playing, eating or sleeping. Pretty much what we do during the day.  

We had a deer accompany as on the walk as if he were a dog. The poor thing simply had no instinct of fear as humans simply never harmed or threatened him.Our friend madam deer.

The walk in the park was interesting but I wonder if the guide fee was worth it. He showed us many animals using a telescope he was carrying but if you've seen one monkey or sloth, you've seen them all. Here are two tired senior citizens ready for a rest and we took it after the guide left us alone.

for more pictures of this walk see: http://rumpfamily1.phanfare.com/4657280_5161289#imageID=99373071