Montegraphia

In the bottom left of the first picture, Bryan fishes for snapper.  Of course, like any real fisherman, after having caught two decently sized fish, he refused to leave until he caught the big one.  He never did catch it and we walked back to our tents in the dark.

   A 2.5 hour hike from the San Pedrillo field station through the most pristine, primary rainforest yields to Playa Llorona, a stunning, black-sand beach at the mouth of Rio Llorona. 

This stretch was our second sampling site in the San Pedrillo sector of Parque Nacional Corcovado.  Ohio needs to rethink it’s streams.

Today, Mike and I leave San Jose for Cleveland. We successfully trekked Peninsula de Osa and collected some solid data for Mike’s dissertation at 14 beautiful, tropical streams, the first of which, Rio San Pedrillo, is pictured below.  A great start to a great trip.

Bryan contemplates climbing up the waterfall.