A Perfectico Storm

This is part 2 of our first two weeks in Costa Rica, you can read Part 1: Three days in Costa Rica here . Hummingbird makes the rubbish weather feel better Day Four: It's still raining and windy, we could have stayed in England if we wanted weather like this, but we're off to La Paz Waterfall Gardens today so nothing is going to dampen our spirits. I could, and probably will, write a whole post about La Paz Waterfall Gardens. It is an amazing place filled with wildlife that we've never seen in real life. There's a mixture of enclosures with different types of animals as well as wild animals in the grounds of the gardens. Hummingbird acrobatics as La Paz We see birds (Iris even got to feed a toucan), insects, spiders, monkeys, butterflies, snakes, frogs, orchids, hummingbirds and big cats. The most impressive part of the day was watching some of the 26 different species of hummingbird in the hummingbird garden, they flit about so gracefully and their win...

Clearly part of the draw of Costa Rica is its fabled biodiversity and we have been reeling in its wondrousness, wonderosity, whatever...every day since we got here. Each day (or more likely evening) we find some critter in the bathroom or kitchen or under the bed and largely it is very interesting and very cool. Not always though. A cool critter to see in your bathroom After the first few weeks we'd been here I turned to Tom and remarked that I'd heard the word scorpion  more since we arrived in Costa Rica than I'd ever heard it before. I had honestly heard  scorpion attached to the classic rock power ballad Winds of Change  more than I had to an actual living creature. And then I'd read somewhere that the creature to most watch out for is a scorpion: spiders and snakes will largely slither/run away from you, ants and stuff you largely get used to or protect from (clearly I will need to revisit this thinking whenever I get bitten by a bullet ant or hawk tara...