Day 24
Day 25
Cloudy with a Chance of Cicada Pee. Scarlet Macaw Traffic Jam. Squawking Deafens Unlucky Tourist. A Monstrous Tide Pool Consumes Popular Beach. These were last week’s headlines in Costa Rica!
We experienced our first cicada rainstorm after booking a rainforest tour with Kids Saving the Rainforest, and halfway through, it started raining. Normal, right? But it was only raining under one tree, with clear skies overhead. Meanwhile, a deafening drone of cicadas filled the air, so ubiquitous that you might forget the sound was flowing. It felt like movie magic. Instead, it was pee. Cicadas soak up so much tree sap and liquid that they eventually pee in unison. It rains cicada. I loved it!
Scarlet macaws fly around Manuel Antonio like a busy JFK at Christmas. If you don’t see them, you still hear them, and vice versa. They even do layovers on people’s decks. They landed on the balcony above ours and nearly touched down on our deck, too. A red devil descended amid a flurry of wings but took one look at me and squawked, “Abort!”
Day 26
Monkey money.
Day 27
Do you see the cute little face in the second photo?
Day 28
Day 29
Day 30
A booze cruise with Sunset Sails serves epic mahi and many memories.
The End!
Hello,
Wonderful photos! The Scarlet Macaw is beautiful. The last shot is lovely, I like how you framed the sunset.
Thank you for linking up and sharing your post. Have a wonderful week.
Love the title of your post!
Your photos are gorgeous, Sharon.
A single cicada terrifies me! A storm of cicadas?!! Yikes!
Love the first and last shots, very creative! I couldn’t read the fun little mention. Requires subscription. Congratulations!
…the Booze Cruise came to a beautiful ending.
Your photos are really spectacular, Sharon. That scarlet macaw is a stunner. And love the sunset through the rope loop. What a great time!
I hope you are having a great time. You certainly have my attention with all your great photos. And getting peed on by cicadas!!
What beautiful photos.
The first and last picture are my favourite.
Greetings Irma
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I enjoyed your colourful post from start to finish. The Scarlet Macaw is a fabulous parrot, the crab, the info about the Cicada is amazing. The Booze
Cruise is.very colourful and artistic. All your photos are first class.
All the best.
It all looks and sounds wonderful! The cicada behavior is bizarre. I’ve never heard of that. Beautiful opening photo!
A life rich with words, beautiful images to look at and experiences that I have never had. I enjoy every minute of your blog. It is so wonderful!
Fantastic sunset. Ab fab.
Beautiful photos. I especially love the sky shot.
Beautiful photos, Sharon. The macaw is beautiful as well as the sunsets.
I can’t imagine it raining cicada pee! It sounds so unusual and definitely must be a sight to see and hear. I remember when I lived in NYC the sound of cicadas always signaled it was the end of summer as they appeared in late August. I don’t see or hear them here in Colorado.
Cicada pee! Can’t wait to talk about that fact I just learned. (I’d rather be where I could see/hear it happening, but I’ll have to settle for next best!) You were definitely in the right place at the right time. Gorgeous pictures — the stuff of dreams. (well, maybe not the pee part …
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