by Abbie Hamilton, George campus
Day 2/May 28th, 2017
On the agenda for today:
-Breakfast at 7:30am
-Dress code: field attire
-Hike at 8:30am
-Lunch 12:00am
-Rafting in the river
-Dinner
It rained all night and I felt that it was going to be dripping in the morning as well but as the sun came up the the whole mood of the day was changed from dreary to birds chirping and sun shine throughout the entire forest. I was up early and my two roommates were sound asleep. I decided I was going to get ready and go outside to take some pictures before breakfast. Breakfast was eggs, plantains, cereal, rice and beans, with pineapples and other fruits. Pineapples were the talk of the town in our small study abroad group. Everyone in the group loved the pineapples and said they had never tasted pineapples that juicy and delicious before.
We then went for a hike at Tirimbina after breakfast and saw sloths. They were high up in the three but I just had to get a picture. On this hike we crossed two wire bridges that were so high up we were above some of the tallest trees. I remember looking down on the river below us and thinking about landing softly if the bridge was not strong enough to hold all 12 of us. The bridge had a 15 people limit and there were 12 of us on it. I was scared because it wobbled at times but I got used to it and was even running on it with no hands at one point.
After lunch our next location was Sarapiqui. We met two of the most funny rafters in here. I forgot their names but not their personalities. There were two rafts,two raft leaders and an extra raft with that followed us for safety. We were in groups of four and our group had the funny and literal gentleman while the other group had the funny but sarcastic gentleman. Our raft leader taught us rafting 101 in less than five minutes. The commands were FORWARD, BACKWARD AND STOP. We would bring our paddles in shout PURA VIDA as our battle cry.
My group went first and our raft leader asked us to do something daring he said “Do you guys want to attack the other raft’ and we were like ‘yeah’. We brought it in and shouted Pura Vida and then we attacked. We splashed the other team, they splashed us back and the safety raft that followed us splashed us as well. As we went over a small wave and we all got wet. The best part about it was that our group was the only one to do it. We went on rafting and saw a variety of birds looking for fish. We had to leave our cameras behind because of the water so we didn’t get a picture of them.
We saw some locals fishing in the river and they waved to us. We saw a lady catch a fish that was half her height. We brought the rafts back in and loaded them onto our travel bus and drove back to Sarapiqui. After that we returned to Tirimbina and had dinner. Later that evening we went and saw some bats (bat mist netting) they look exactly like the animated ones in the Scooby Doo. After that Miss Carolina gave a presentation on Tirimbina and what it does to protect the wide variety of life there.
On the agenda for today:
-Breakfast at 7:30am
-Dress code: field attire
-Hike at 8:30am
-Lunch 12:00am
-Rafting in the river
-Dinner
It rained all night and I felt that it was going to be dripping in the morning as well but as the sun came up the the whole mood of the day was changed from dreary to birds chirping and sun shine throughout the entire forest. I was up early and my two roommates were sound asleep. I decided I was going to get ready and go outside to take some pictures before breakfast. Breakfast was eggs, plantains, cereal, rice and beans, with pineapples and other fruits. Pineapples were the talk of the town in our small study abroad group. Everyone in the group loved the pineapples and said they had never tasted pineapples that juicy and delicious before.
We then went for a hike at Tirimbina after breakfast and saw sloths. They were high up in the three but I just had to get a picture. On this hike we crossed two wire bridges that were so high up we were above some of the tallest trees. I remember looking down on the river below us and thinking about landing softly if the bridge was not strong enough to hold all 12 of us. The bridge had a 15 people limit and there were 12 of us on it. I was scared because it wobbled at times but I got used to it and was even running on it with no hands at one point.
After lunch our next location was Sarapiqui. We met two of the most funny rafters in here. I forgot their names but not their personalities. There were two rafts,two raft leaders and an extra raft with that followed us for safety. We were in groups of four and our group had the funny and literal gentleman while the other group had the funny but sarcastic gentleman. Our raft leader taught us rafting 101 in less than five minutes. The commands were FORWARD, BACKWARD AND STOP. We would bring our paddles in shout PURA VIDA as our battle cry.
My group went first and our raft leader asked us to do something daring he said “Do you guys want to attack the other raft’ and we were like ‘yeah’. We brought it in and shouted Pura Vida and then we attacked. We splashed the other team, they splashed us back and the safety raft that followed us splashed us as well. As we went over a small wave and we all got wet. The best part about it was that our group was the only one to do it. We went on rafting and saw a variety of birds looking for fish. We had to leave our cameras behind because of the water so we didn’t get a picture of them.
We saw some locals fishing in the river and they waved to us. We saw a lady catch a fish that was half her height. We brought the rafts back in and loaded them onto our travel bus and drove back to Sarapiqui. After that we returned to Tirimbina and had dinner. Later that evening we went and saw some bats (bat mist netting) they look exactly like the animated ones in the Scooby Doo. After that Miss Carolina gave a presentation on Tirimbina and what it does to protect the wide variety of life there.