We are still trying to get pictures of all of the creatures, but for now, here are our creature accounts and a few phone shots.
We will try to catch one of the many yellow butterflies and dragonflies in Guanacaste. They are always around, so I tend to forget to notice them. I hear a monkey howling every morning, but I haven't seen him. The squirrels are leaner and the colors of a Saint Bernard. I smell skunks. There are a bunch of wasp nests.
We haven't run into any mosquitos, but Nate and I are feasted on by these invisible gnat pests every day. We both wake with new bites, (maybe/ probably spider bites) that feel deeper and are a bitch to heal. But since we are nicely tanned, we don't look as diseased as we should. Max is untouched.
I owe you some yellow-belly birds close up, some geckos, maybe a snake (although my snake encounter freaked me out, so I am hoping not to meet another). Oh, and we should snap some roaming chickens.
Once you get down with the fact that everything moves, then it's not so weird. A tiny caterpillar crawled out from the lock as I was opening the door, and it just kept coming out. Nate and I watched it grow longer and longer, and our very quiet squeal grew higher in pitch and stretched out until we saw the end of this trillapede. Geckos are in the pool, toads are in the house, road kill here is crushed crab..it's different.
Tarantula
Yellow belly birds
Rooster
Iguana
Whatever this is
About six inches tall. He was in our house.
He followed us to lunch
Cows
Pretty