No time for breakfast before our group of 11 board the coach that will take us part way to Tortuguero on the Caribbean coast. We joined 2 other GAP tours that had been staying at other hotels.Along the way we slowed down to see a meeting of the waters.
Later we stopped to admire a sloth up a tree, which is what sloths do, coming down once a week to us the bathroom. The green coloration is down to a bacteria which provides some camouflage and the sloth licks and gets nutrients. 
After an eventual breakfast stop we stopped at a banana packing plant. The bananas are transported to the plant along a kind of cable way in a train pulled along by manpower. These ropeways even cross the roads using a drawbridge arrangement. Believe that the beetle is a Hercules beetle, the strongest animal on the planet.
After a journey along unsurfaced roads we arrived at the transfer point to the boats for the second leg of the journey. Spotted various wildlife along the waterways when we weren’t racing along at 30mph. The Canales de Tortuguero were constructed to connect a series of lagoons and meandering rivers in 1969. We stopped at Tortuguero town on the way to the Turtle Beach Lodge (no turtles though at this time of year). We explored the shops and found the beach with the surf pounding.
After another late-ish lunch at the lodge we were free to explore the lodge grounds and wander along the beach. Paul found a great piece of wood that must have been in the water for ever. It was incredibly heavy and well rounded into a shark fin shape. Shortly after taking the picture a second wave swept the piece back into the sea while Paul was momentarily distracted by a female jogger. Despite valiant efforts to relocate the piece it was lost, he was devastated – by the loss of such a find.
As it was New Year’s Eve we had a quiet celebration at 6pm local time and went to bed at 9pm. We were woken up at midnight by the fireworks turned over and went back to sleep.
After a journey along unsurfaced roads we arrived at the transfer point to the boats for the second leg of the journey. Spotted various wildlife along the waterways when we weren’t racing along at 30mph. The Canales de Tortuguero were constructed to connect a series of lagoons and meandering rivers in 1969. We stopped at Tortuguero town on the way to the Turtle Beach Lodge (no turtles though at this time of year). We explored the shops and found the beach with the surf pounding.
After another late-ish lunch at the lodge we were free to explore the lodge grounds and wander along the beach. Paul found a great piece of wood that must have been in the water for ever. It was incredibly heavy and well rounded into a shark fin shape. Shortly after taking the picture a second wave swept the piece back into the sea while Paul was momentarily distracted by a female jogger. Despite valiant efforts to relocate the piece it was lost, he was devastated – by the loss of such a find.As it was New Year’s Eve we had a quiet celebration at 6pm local time and went to bed at 9pm. We were woken up at midnight by the fireworks turned over and went back to sleep.
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