Hiking in the Santa Elena Cloud Forest

After ziplining and before lunch, we went to a school and planted some trees in the reserve. This is a Costa Rican avocado plant that Candice is positioning.

Someone - Luke? - took this photo of me. I think I am happy that my feet are now on the ground!

This somewhat scary creature was in the visitors center at the Santa Elena preserve.

Here we have a stick insect. It reminded me of when we had dozens of stick insect babies all over the curtains at Hessle Terrace; they had escaped from the cage of their parents!

View from the top of the trail; at one point you could see the Carribbean...

There was a tower you could climb; stairs and then a steep ladder to the very top, only two at a time. That's some of our group below.

A juvenile broad-winged hawk: