Central American adventure tour 2012 (Formerly Costa Rica '08): Monteverde Cloud Forest fotos

cute puppies at the pitstop on the death ride to monteverde. for the record, puppies are and will always be cuter than babies. hands down.

first sign of clouds entering the cloud forest. the first sign of the incredible non-stop wetness we were about to experience for 2 days.

mas clouds

carmen and morell after the tarzan swing at the zipline tour place. it was cool to say the least. notice the wetness

1/2 of carmen, morell, evan, and I after doing the tarzan swing. notice the wetness

bug on the night time forest tour. notice the wetness.

tree frog. its tough to take clear pictures at night using flashlights instead of camera flashes which we weren't allowed to use for some reason. notice the wetness.

a caterpillar that had been eaten from the inside out. pretty cool. notice the wetness.

tarantula. guess i got over my fear of spiders?

it was pretty cool. it only comes out at night because sometimes if they come out during the day a huge wasp will come, stun the tarantula, pick them up (spider is about the size of your palm) and fly it somewhere, inject its babies into it, the spider would wake up, and 2 months later hundreds of wasp babies would burst out of the tarantula killing it. nasty but cool.

my night time tour group and guide. notice the wetness.

selva (forest) in the morning

what tarzan supposedly swang around the forest on

caterpillar of some sort that was alive. whoops, my flash went off so i could finally get a clear picture.jon campbell in front of the strangler fig tree, hollow in the middle because the tree let things grow up beside it, get to the top to take in the sun, they throw their roots down the side of the tree, eventually the middle of the tree rots out and dies, often times bats live in here.famous female Quetzal through the telescope, didnt get a pic of the male