Road trip day! We hopped into the van, driven by David, a native Costa Rican. Our first stop was at a bog (pantana) called “Tres de Juno” (third of June). The entire area is smaller than the area of a foot ball field and created by near surface drainage accumulating. Sphagnum moss grows in the soil, dies and makes an acidic environment, from which many other things grow.
Second stop: The mountain of the dead. Cerro de la Muerte, the highest point in Costa Rica that you can drive to. We got tons of great pictures of us above the clouds.
Third stop: Cerro de la Muerte Biological Station (CMBS) We ate a lunch of very nice melons and some kind of pasta with meat sauce, not much like spaghetti but that is all I have to relate to it. We hiked around here and found a small waterfall and a bunch of orchids that have a center that mimic female flies, then male flies try to mate with them..... kind of gross but you gotta do what you gotta do to get pollinated these days.
Finally we arrived at the Organization for Tropica Research Station (OTS). Our rooms are beautiful. The land used to be a coffee farm, and was bought and turned into a huge tropical garden. Dinner consisted of rice, beans, broccoli dish, bamboo dish, mung bean dish, and some kind of dessert resembling carrot cake with rice.
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