This morning I woke up at 5:45, took a bus to San Jose from Palmares, and then took a taxi to the Caribbean bus station, to take another bus to the Caribbean Coast, and then took another bus to get to Pavona, and then a river boat through the jungle to get to San Francisco (a small town of 600 people near Tortuguero), and then walked a half hour in the mud with my backpack, and then took a canoe to get to the Cano Palmo Biological Station, or the Canadian Organization for Tropical Education & Rainforest Conservation. http://www.coterc.org
It is the rainy season in the NE of Costa Rica, and there are a lot of turtles laying their eggs. I'm going to spend the next week volunteering with the organization. I am super excited to help out with the organization, and to contribute (albeit an extremely small amount of time) to turtle conservation.
The people here are great. So far, it's a lot like a geology field camp. Everyone here is from either Europe, the UK, Canada or the US. Tomorrow is my first night shift.
I met two awesome ticos on the way (Marlin y Pedro); always good to practice mi español and learn more about Costa Rica :)
Pictures will come later- the internets are too slow here.
Pura Vida <3
