Early morning wakeup then 6:30 breakfast which was a half bagel
wit egg and cheese as well as a fruit plate. We saw a beautiful
sunrise before boarding the skiff at 7 AM for our bird walk with
Karen. It was noticeably cooler and dryer when we headed out
this morning. We took two skiffs for a wet landing at Curu
National Wildlife refuge Park camp. The walk down the gravel road was
rewarding. When we first came ashore a pair of scarlett MacCaws
greeted us then we started seeing many varieties of colorful and
beautiful birds including a woodpecker that resembled the
pileated. There were many many varieties that we spotted. I
thoroughly enjoyed the walk with Karen and really appreciated
walking with Karen. She is an open book and shares her
knowledge freely. We ended up at what they called a lagoon but
was a large pond with an island. Saw a lot of waterbird birds
in the pond including an egret and a beautiful family of brown
birids with green necks with their babies. Came across white
face onkeys along the river on our way back as well as a few
hummingbirds. Back at the camp we encountered white face
monkeys again, this time everywhere. At the lodge we bought
some tee shirts which were made in Costa Rica and also Libbie
bought a grandchild toy, a pair of monkeys. Lunch was a
delicious black bean chili with rice and green onion rings. I
had a blonde ale beer by ???? which was quite good. I was
scheduled to take a skiff tour this afternoon with Archie but
cancelled. Tim, the Hotel Manager, sold us a coupon for our
next cruise and also collected our tip money and the $170 we
owed for the two Uncruise shirts we bought. We have run out of
clothes. In the afternoon i downloaded the Camera and got caught up
on some of my writings of this week.

In the evening we had dinner which is the Captains dinner which
was a tenderloin in wine sauce with potatoes and veggies. We
ordered a bottle of Macelus Cabernet with dinner. Desert was a
delicious chocolate torte. After dinner we adjourned to the
lounge to watch the uncruise creted slide show for the week. It
was pretty good. We're going to get the pictures on a thumb
drive from Uncruise tomorrow morning.