Manuel Antonio Park

There are many kinds of lizards in the park

Male frog rides on the back of the female until he fertilizes her eggs

Manuel Antonio Park was started in 1972

We spent 2 1/2 days in this park, with a half day hike with a naturalist who taught us how to recognize critters that live here. One afternoon we hiked trails by ourselves and saw 4 Toucans flying in the trees, eating fruit but we didn't have the scope of the naturalist to capture pictures. The following picture of mommy sloth is amazing even to the naturalist we hiked with.  The beaches were beautiful and snorkeling would have been good but we had big surf the day we went making visibility poor. The 3 days we spent in this park made some of the difficult times sailing this Eastern Pacific ocean worthwhile.

Two toed Sloth with baby sleeping in a tree

Three toed sloth

Capuchin Monkeys

A family of bats sleeping under a branch our of the rain

bark of this tree peels to protect it from parasites and it has a powder under the bark used in cosmetics

beautiful anchorage

looking out to the Pacific Ocean

 We were the only boat the first night in the anchorage at Manuel Antonio Park.