)
)
[Zend_View_Helper_HeadMeta] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container Object
(
[_prefix:protected] =>
[_postfix:protected] =>
[_separator:protected] =>
[_indent:protected] =>
[_captureLock:protected] =>
[_captureType:protected] =>
[_captureKey:protected] =>
[storage:ArrayObject:private] => Array
(
[1] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => name
[name] => robots
[content] => noindex,follow
[modifiers] => Array
(
)
)
)
)
[Zend_View_Helper_HeadLink] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container Object
(
[_prefix:protected] =>
[_postfix:protected] =>
[_separator:protected] =>
[_indent:protected] =>
[_captureLock:protected] =>
[_captureType:protected] =>
[_captureKey:protected] =>
[storage:ArrayObject:private] => Array
(
)
)
[Zend_View_Helper_HeadScript] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container Object
(
[_prefix:protected] =>
[_postfix:protected] =>
[_separator:protected] =>
[_indent:protected] =>
[_captureLock:protected] =>
[_captureType:protected] =>
[_captureKey:protected] =>
[storage:ArrayObject:private] => Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/ui/exampleHintText.js
)
[source] =>
)
[1] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.mousewheel.js
)
[source] =>
)
[2] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/json2.js
)
[source] =>
)
[3] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.cycle.lite.js
)
[source] =>
)
[4] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.jscrollpane.min.js
)
[source] =>
)
[5] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.min.js
)
[source] =>
)
[6] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.tagify.js
)
[source] =>
)
[7] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/local/jquery.validationEngine-nl.js
)
[source] =>
)
[8] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.validationEngine.js
)
[source] =>
)
[9] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.fileupload.js
)
[source] =>
)
[10] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.iframe-transport.js
)
[source] =>
)
[11] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.tools.min.js
)
[source] =>
)
[12] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.prettyPhoto.js
)
[source] =>
)
[13] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.ba-dotimeout.min.js
)
[source] =>
)
[14] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.store.js
)
[source] =>
)
[15] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.cookie.js
)
[source] =>
)
[16] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.miniColors.js
)
[source] =>
)
[17] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.tmpl.js
)
[source] =>
)
[18] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.textCounter.js
)
[source] =>
)
[19] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.rotate.js
)
[source] =>
)
[20] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.easyBGResizer.js
)
[source] =>
)
[21] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/external/aurigma/aurigma.uploader.js
)
[source] =>
)
[22] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/external/aurigma/aurigma.uploader.installationprogress.js
)
[source] =>
)
[23] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/external/aurigma/local/aurigma.uploader.nl_localization.js
)
[source] =>
)
[24] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.ad-gallery.js
)
[source] =>
)
[25] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/gmaps.js
)
[source] =>
)
[26] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/googleMapsNew.js
)
[source] =>
)
[27] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/entity/Callback.js
)
[source] =>
)
[28] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/entity/Entity.js
)
[source] =>
)
[29] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/setup.js
)
[source] =>
)
[30] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery-example.js
)
[source] =>
)
[31] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.tooltip.min.js
)
[source] =>
)
[32] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/local/jquery.ui.datepicker-nl.js
)
[source] =>
)
[33] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/bas.js
)
[source] =>
)
[34] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/team.js
)
[source] =>
)
)
)
[Zend_View_Helper_InlineScript] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container Object
(
[_prefix:protected] =>
[_postfix:protected] =>
[_separator:protected] =>
[_indent:protected] =>
[_captureLock:protected] =>
[_captureType:protected] =>
[_captureKey:protected] =>
[storage:ArrayObject:private] => Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/tmpl.min.js
)
[source] =>
)
[1] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/load-image.min.js
)
[source] =>
)
[2] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/bootstrap.min.js
)
[source] =>
)
[3] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.iframe-transport.js
)
[source] =>
)
[4] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.fileupload.js
)
[source] =>
)
[5] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.fileupload-ui.js
)
[source] =>
)
[6] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/fileUploadCustomSettings.js
)
[source] =>
)
[7] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.timeago.js
)
[source] =>
)
[8] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/local/jquery.timeago.nl.js
)
[source] =>
)
[9] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/fileuploader.js
)
[source] =>
)
[10] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/entity/upload.js
)
[source] =>
)
[11] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/classes/SortableEntities.js
)
[source] =>
)
[12] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/unoslider.js
)
[source] =>
)
[13] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/shop.js
)
[source] =>
)
[14] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/classes/PortalTicker.js
)
[source] =>
)
[15] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/afterLoading.js
)
[source] =>
)
[16] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/commentValidation.js
)
[source] =>
)
[17] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/clubs.js
)
[source] =>
)
)
)
[Zend_View_Helper_HeadTitle] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container Object
(
[_prefix:protected] =>
[_postfix:protected] =>
[_separator:protected] => -
[_indent:protected] =>
[_captureLock:protected] =>
[_captureType:protected] =>
[_captureKey:protected] =>
[storage:ArrayObject:private] => Array
(
[0] => Reisverslagen over Costa Rica
[1] => WaarBenJij.nu
)
)
)
)
[_autoEscape:protected] => 1
[view] => Zend_View Object
*RECURSION*
)
[Doctype] => Zend_View_Helper_Doctype Object
(
[_defaultDoctype:protected] => HTML4_LOOSE
[_registry:protected] => ArrayObject Object
(
[storage:ArrayObject:private] => Array
(
[doctypes] => Array
(
[XHTML11] =>
[XHTML1_STRICT] =>
[XHTML1_TRANSITIONAL] =>
[XHTML1_FRAMESET] =>
[XHTML1_RDFA] =>
[XHTML_BASIC1] =>
[XHTML5] =>
[HTML4_STRICT] =>
[HTML4_LOOSE] =>
[HTML4_FRAMESET] =>
[HTML5] =>
)
[doctype] => HTML4_LOOSE
)
)
[_regKey:protected] => Zend_View_Helper_Doctype
[view] => Zend_View Object
*RECURSION*
)
[HeadLink] => Zend_View_Helper_HeadLink Object
(
[_itemKeys:protected] => Array
(
[0] => charset
[1] => href
[2] => hreflang
[3] => id
[4] => media
[5] => rel
[6] => rev
[7] => type
[8] => title
[9] => extras
[10] => sizes
)
[_regKey:protected] => Zend_View_Helper_HeadLink
[_container:protected] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container Object
(
[_prefix:protected] =>
[_postfix:protected] =>
[_separator:protected] =>
[_indent:protected] =>
[_captureLock:protected] =>
[_captureType:protected] =>
[_captureKey:protected] =>
[storage:ArrayObject:private] => Array
(
)
)
[_registry:protected] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Registry Object
(
[_containerClass:protected] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container
[_items:protected] => Array
(
[Zend_Layout] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container Object
(
[_prefix:protected] =>
[_postfix:protected] =>
[_separator:protected] =>
[_indent:protected] =>
[_captureLock:protected] =>
[_captureType:protected] =>
[_captureKey:protected] =>
[storage:ArrayObject:private] => Array
(
[content] =>
)
)
[Zend_View_Helper_HeadMeta] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container Object
(
[_prefix:protected] =>
[_postfix:protected] =>
[_separator:protected] =>
[_indent:protected] =>
[_captureLock:protected] =>
[_captureType:protected] =>
[_captureKey:protected] =>
[storage:ArrayObject:private] => Array
(
[1] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => name
[name] => robots
[content] => noindex,follow
[modifiers] => Array
(
)
)
)
)
[Zend_View_Helper_HeadLink] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container Object
(
[_prefix:protected] =>
[_postfix:protected] =>
[_separator:protected] =>
[_indent:protected] =>
[_captureLock:protected] =>
[_captureType:protected] =>
[_captureKey:protected] =>
[storage:ArrayObject:private] => Array
(
)
)
[Zend_View_Helper_HeadScript] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container Object
(
[_prefix:protected] =>
[_postfix:protected] =>
[_separator:protected] =>
[_indent:protected] =>
[_captureLock:protected] =>
[_captureType:protected] =>
[_captureKey:protected] =>
[storage:ArrayObject:private] => Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/ui/exampleHintText.js
)
[source] =>
)
[1] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.mousewheel.js
)
[source] =>
)
[2] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/json2.js
)
[source] =>
)
[3] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.cycle.lite.js
)
[source] =>
)
[4] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.jscrollpane.min.js
)
[source] =>
)
[5] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.min.js
)
[source] =>
)
[6] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.tagify.js
)
[source] =>
)
[7] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/local/jquery.validationEngine-nl.js
)
[source] =>
)
[8] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.validationEngine.js
)
[source] =>
)
[9] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.fileupload.js
)
[source] =>
)
[10] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.iframe-transport.js
)
[source] =>
)
[11] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.tools.min.js
)
[source] =>
)
[12] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.prettyPhoto.js
)
[source] =>
)
[13] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.ba-dotimeout.min.js
)
[source] =>
)
[14] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.store.js
)
[source] =>
)
[15] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.cookie.js
)
[source] =>
)
[16] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.miniColors.js
)
[source] =>
)
[17] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.tmpl.js
)
[source] =>
)
[18] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.textCounter.js
)
[source] =>
)
[19] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.rotate.js
)
[source] =>
)
[20] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.easyBGResizer.js
)
[source] =>
)
[21] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/external/aurigma/aurigma.uploader.js
)
[source] =>
)
[22] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/external/aurigma/aurigma.uploader.installationprogress.js
)
[source] =>
)
[23] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/external/aurigma/local/aurigma.uploader.nl_localization.js
)
[source] =>
)
[24] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.ad-gallery.js
)
[source] =>
)
[25] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/gmaps.js
)
[source] =>
)
[26] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/googleMapsNew.js
)
[source] =>
)
[27] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/entity/Callback.js
)
[source] =>
)
[28] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/entity/Entity.js
)
[source] =>
)
[29] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/setup.js
)
[source] =>
)
[30] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery-example.js
)
[source] =>
)
[31] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.tooltip.min.js
)
[source] =>
)
[32] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/local/jquery.ui.datepicker-nl.js
)
[source] =>
)
[33] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/bas.js
)
[source] =>
)
[34] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/team.js
)
[source] =>
)
)
)
[Zend_View_Helper_InlineScript] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container Object
(
[_prefix:protected] =>
[_postfix:protected] =>
[_separator:protected] =>
[_indent:protected] =>
[_captureLock:protected] =>
[_captureType:protected] =>
[_captureKey:protected] =>
[storage:ArrayObject:private] => Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/tmpl.min.js
)
[source] =>
)
[1] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/load-image.min.js
)
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(
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[source] =>
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(
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
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[16] => stdClass Object
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
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[17] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
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[_indent:protected] =>
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[_captureType:protected] =>
[_captureKey:protected] =>
[storage:ArrayObject:private] => Array
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)
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[view] => Zend_View Object
*RECURSION*
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[InlineScript] => Zend_View_Helper_InlineScript Object
(
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[_arbitraryAttributes:protected] =>
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[_captureScriptType:protected] =>
[_captureScriptAttrs:protected] =>
[_captureType:protected] =>
[_optionalAttributes:protected] => Array
(
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[1] => defer
[2] => language
[3] => src
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[_requiredAttributes:protected] => Array
(
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[useCdata] =>
[_container:protected] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container Object
(
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[_postfix:protected] =>
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[_captureKey:protected] =>
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(
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(
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
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[1] => stdClass Object
(
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
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(
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
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[3] => stdClass Object
(
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
[4] => stdClass Object
(
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
[5] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
[6] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
[7] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
[8] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
[9] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
[10] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/entity/upload.js
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[source] =>
)
[11] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/classes/SortableEntities.js
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[source] =>
)
[12] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
[13] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/shop.js
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[source] =>
)
[14] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/classes/PortalTicker.js
)
[source] =>
)
[15] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/afterLoading.js
)
[source] =>
)
[16] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/commentValidation.js
)
[source] =>
)
[17] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/clubs.js
)
[source] =>
)
)
)
[_registry:protected] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Registry Object
(
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[_items:protected] => Array
(
[Zend_Layout] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container Object
(
[_prefix:protected] =>
[_postfix:protected] =>
[_separator:protected] =>
[_indent:protected] =>
[_captureLock:protected] =>
[_captureType:protected] =>
[_captureKey:protected] =>
[storage:ArrayObject:private] => Array
(
[content] =>
)
)
[Zend_View_Helper_HeadMeta] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container Object
(
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[_postfix:protected] =>
[_separator:protected] =>
[_indent:protected] =>
[_captureLock:protected] =>
[_captureType:protected] =>
[_captureKey:protected] =>
[storage:ArrayObject:private] => Array
(
[1] => stdClass Object
(
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[name] => robots
[content] => noindex,follow
[modifiers] => Array
(
)
)
)
)
[Zend_View_Helper_HeadLink] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container Object
(
[_prefix:protected] =>
[_postfix:protected] =>
[_separator:protected] =>
[_indent:protected] =>
[_captureLock:protected] =>
[_captureType:protected] =>
[_captureKey:protected] =>
[storage:ArrayObject:private] => Array
(
)
)
[Zend_View_Helper_HeadScript] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container Object
(
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[_postfix:protected] =>
[_separator:protected] =>
[_indent:protected] =>
[_captureLock:protected] =>
[_captureType:protected] =>
[_captureKey:protected] =>
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(
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(
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
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(
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
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(
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
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[3] => stdClass Object
(
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
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[source] =>
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
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(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
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(
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[attributes] => Array
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[source] =>
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(
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
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(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
[11] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
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(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
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(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
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(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
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(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
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(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.miniColors.js
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[source] =>
)
[17] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.tmpl.js
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[source] =>
)
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[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
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[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.rotate.js
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[source] =>
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[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
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[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
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[source] =>
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[attributes] => Array
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[source] =>
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
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[attributes] => Array
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[source] =>
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[26] => stdClass Object
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
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[27] => stdClass Object
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[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
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[28] => stdClass Object
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[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/entity/Entity.js
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[source] =>
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[29] => stdClass Object
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
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[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
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[31] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
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(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/local/jquery.ui.datepicker-nl.js
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[source] =>
)
[33] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/bas.js
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[source] =>
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[34] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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)
[source] =>
)
)
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(
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[_postfix:protected] =>
[_separator:protected] =>
[_indent:protected] =>
[_captureLock:protected] =>
[_captureType:protected] =>
[_captureKey:protected] =>
[storage:ArrayObject:private] => Array
(
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(
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
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(
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
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(
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
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(
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
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(
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[source] =>
)
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(
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
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(
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
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(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
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(
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
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(
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(
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[source] =>
)
[10] => stdClass Object
(
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
[11] => stdClass Object
(
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[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/classes/SortableEntities.js
)
[source] =>
)
[12] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
[13] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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)
[source] =>
)
[14] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/classes/PortalTicker.js
)
[source] =>
)
[15] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/afterLoading.js
)
[source] =>
)
[16] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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)
[source] =>
)
[17] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/custom/clubs.js
)
[source] =>
)
)
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(
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[_postfix:protected] =>
[_separator:protected] => -
[_indent:protected] =>
[_captureLock:protected] =>
[_captureType:protected] =>
[_captureKey:protected] =>
[storage:ArrayObject:private] => Array
(
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)
)
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[view] => Zend_View Object
*RECURSION*
)
[HeadTitle] => Zend_View_Helper_HeadTitle Object
(
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[_translate:protected] =>
[_translator:protected] =>
[_defaultAttachOrder:protected] =>
[_container:protected] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container Object
(
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[_postfix:protected] =>
[_separator:protected] => -
[_indent:protected] =>
[_captureLock:protected] =>
[_captureType:protected] =>
[_captureKey:protected] =>
[storage:ArrayObject:private] => Array
(
[0] => Reisverslagen over Costa Rica
[1] => WaarBenJij.nu
)
)
[_registry:protected] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Registry Object
(
[_containerClass:protected] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container
[_items:protected] => Array
(
[Zend_Layout] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container Object
(
[_prefix:protected] =>
[_postfix:protected] =>
[_separator:protected] =>
[_indent:protected] =>
[_captureLock:protected] =>
[_captureType:protected] =>
[_captureKey:protected] =>
[storage:ArrayObject:private] => Array
(
[content] =>
)
)
[Zend_View_Helper_HeadMeta] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container Object
(
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[_postfix:protected] =>
[_separator:protected] =>
[_indent:protected] =>
[_captureLock:protected] =>
[_captureType:protected] =>
[_captureKey:protected] =>
[storage:ArrayObject:private] => Array
(
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[modifiers] => Array
(
)
)
)
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[Zend_View_Helper_HeadLink] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container Object
(
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[_postfix:protected] =>
[_separator:protected] =>
[_indent:protected] =>
[_captureLock:protected] =>
[_captureType:protected] =>
[_captureKey:protected] =>
[storage:ArrayObject:private] => Array
(
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[Zend_View_Helper_HeadScript] => Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container Object
(
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[_separator:protected] =>
[_indent:protected] =>
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[_captureKey:protected] =>
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(
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(
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[source] =>
)
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(
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(
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[source] =>
)
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(
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[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
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(
[type] => text/javascript
[attributes] => Array
(
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[source] =>
)
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(
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[attributes] => Array
(
[src] => https://cdn.easyapps.nl/578/js/jquery/jquery.jscrollpane.min.js
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[source] =>
)
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(
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[source] =>
)
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(
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[source] =>
)
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(
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(
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[source] =>
)
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(
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(
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[source] =>
)
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(
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(
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[source] =>
)
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(
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(
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[source] =>
)
[11] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => text/javascript
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(
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[source] =>
)
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Stel: je bent al jaren fan van reizen, van vrijheid op het water of de geur van dennen in een bos en je overweegt om een boot of vakantiehuis te kopen. Het klinkt als de ultieme droom: een eigen stekkie voor weekends en vakanties, zonder telkens iets te huren of in een druk hotel te zitten. Maar voordat je die stap zet, is het slim om eerst goed na te denken.
Een eigen boot of vakantiehuis heeft veel aantrekkingskracht: het is jouw eigen plek om tot rust te komen, weg van dagelijkse beslommeringen. Je bepaalt zelf wanneer je gaat, met wie, en hoe lang je blijft. Voor veel reizigers voelt het als een rustpunt.
Tegelijkertijd is bezit geen vanzelfsprekendheid: het brengt verplichtingen en kosten mee die je niet moet onderschatten. Een vakantiehuis of boot is geen hotel of huurwoning. Je bent verantwoordelijk voor onderhoud, stalling, verzekering en alle bijkomende lasten. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan onvoorziene uitgaven voor reparaties, extra kosten bij verhuur of seizoensgebonden beperkingen die het gebruik beïnvloeden.
Of je nu kiest voor een boot of vakantiehuis: de locatie bepaalt veel. Hoe ver is het van je ‘thuis’? Hoe vaak ga je echt? Als je slechts één of twee weekenden per jaar kunt gaan, is het de vraag of de investering de moeite waard is.
De meeste experts raden aan om vóór aankoop te huren of te logeren op een vergelijkbare plek, om te ervaren of het écht bij je past.
Bij een vakantiehuis moet je ook uitzoeken wat de lokale regels zijn. In Nederland is permanente bewoning van een recreatiewoning bijvoorbeeld niet altijd toegestaan.
Ook kan de omgeving of het seizoen invloed hebben op het gebruiksgemak. Bij een boot spelen zaken als vaargebied, ligplaatsen en bereikbaarheid een rol.
De koopprijs is vaak nog maar het begin. Denk aan overdrachtsbelasting, notariskosten en soms advieskosten. Daarna komen de vaste lasten: energie, belastingen, verzekeringen, onderhoud en eventuele park- of ligplaatskosten.
Winterstalling en antifoulingPeriodiek motoronderhoud en keuringBrandstof, waterkaarten, havengeldenEen recreatiewoning vraagt om structureel onderhoud van zowel binnen- als buitenzijde, denk aan schilderwerk, dakonderhoud, cv-installaties of tuinbeheer. Vergeet ook niet de kosten voor schoonmaak bij verhuur of een lokale beheerder.
Kostenvoorbeeld
Reken voor een bescheiden vakantiewoning op €3.000–€6.000 vaste lasten per jaar. Voor een middelgrote boot al snel €2.500–€4.000, afhankelijk van gebruik en stalling.
Wat past beter bij jou: boot of vakantiehuis?
Een boot biedt ultieme flexibiliteit. Je kunt meerdere locaties aandoen, je ‘verplaatst’ je vakantieplek als het ware. Dat is perfect voor mensen die houden van avontuur op het water en zich makkelijk kunnen aanpassen. Tegelijkertijd vraagt een boot intensief onderhoud, en zijn de jaarlijkse kosten vaak hoger dan verwacht. Zeker als je er niet zelf veel aan doet.
Een vakantiehuis is stabieler qua investering. Je kiest voor een vaste plek die je naar eigen smaak kunt inrichten en verbeteren. Bovendien kun je het huis mogelijk (deels) verhuren als je er zelf niet bent. De keerzijde: minder mobiliteit, en ook hier zijn er terugkerende kosten die vaak onderschat worden.
Let op: De waardeontwikkeling van een vakantiehuis kan aantrekkelijk zijn, maar dit is sterk afhankelijk van locatie, onderhoud en regelgeving.
Een slimme investering bescherm je met een goede verzekering
Welke keuze je ook maakt, je koopt geen luxeproduct maar een bezit met waarde. En waarde vraagt om bescherming. Het risico op schade door brand, storm, inbraak of ongelukjes is niet te vermijden maar je kunt je er wel goed tegen wapenen.
Daarom is het verstandig om je vanaf het begin goed te laten adviseren over passende verzekeringen. Eerdmans is verzekeringsspecialist voor recreatie die precies weet wat belangrijk is bij het verzekeren van een boot of vakantiehuis. Denk aan dekking voor schade, aansprakelijkheid, inboedel of milieuschade.
Wat als je droom verandert?
Een boot of vakantiehuis koop je vaak met het idee om er jarenlang van te genieten. Maar levens veranderen. Misschien gebruik je het minder dan gedacht, wil je overstappen op een ander type vaartuig of woning, of komt er een moment dat je de investering liever liquide maakt. Dan is het goed om een plan B te hebben.
- Restwaarde en marktvraag: Boten schrijven doorgaans sneller af dan recreatiewoningen. Een goed onderhouden huis op een gewilde locatie kan zijn waarde behouden of zelfs stijgen, zeker bij schaarste.
- Verkoopproces: Bij een vakantiehuis moet je denken aan een verkoopmakelaar, juridische afhandeling (zeker in het buitenland), en eventueel het afkopen van erfpacht of parkcontracten. Voor een boot: registratie, keuring en mogelijk btw-status.
- Verhuren als tussenstap: Als verkoop nog geen optie is, kun je overwegen om (tijdelijk) te verhuren om kosten te dekken. Let dan wel op extra regels, vergunningen en verzekeringseisen.
Tip: Bepaal bij aankoop al wat je ideale gebruikstermijn is. Zo kun je tijdig inspelen op veranderingen en voorkom je dat het bezit een last wordt.
Maak van jouw droom een doordacht plan
Een eigen boot of vakantiehuis kopen is fantastisch. Het kan jouw reislust en behoefte aan vrijheid vervullen. Maar de droom wordt pas echt duurzaam als je realistisch bent over kosten, tijd, onderhoud en verzekeringen.
Neem de tijd om te rekenen, plannen en vergelijken. Kijk of de investering bij je levensstijl past, en maak gebruik van de juiste expertise. Zo wordt je vakantiedroom geen zorgenpost, maar een plek waar je jaar na jaar van kunt genieten.
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Reizen staat voor vrijheid. Geen vaste routine, geen agenda, alleen jij en de weg die zich ontvouwt. Toch weet elke reiziger dat echte vrijheid niet ontstaat uit chaos, maar uit overzicht. Wanneer je weet waar je bent, wat je nodig hebt en hoe je keuzes maakt, wordt reizen pas echt zorgeloos. Dat geldt voor alles onderweg: je route, je bagage, je geld en zelfs de manier waarop je met technologie omgaat. In een wereld waarin innovatie snel vooruitgaat draait vrijheid steeds meer om inzicht.
De voorbereiding als fundament
Spontaan reizen klinkt romantisch, maar zelfs de meest vrije avonturier plant bewust. Een goede voorbereiding betekent niet dat je alles vastlegt, maar dat je ruimte creëert voor improvisatie. Door inzicht te hebben in je budget, je documenten en je route, kun je met vertrouwen loslaten. Overzicht is geen beperking, maar een hulpmiddel. Het maakt dat je keuzes kunt maken zonder stress, omdat je weet wat je achterlaat en waar je naartoe wilt.
Rust in plaats van controle
Overzicht geeft rust. Niet omdat alles voorspelbaar wordt, maar omdat je beter weet hoe je kunt omgaan met het onverwachte. Een gemiste trein, een omweg of een vertraging voelt minder zwaar als je grip houdt op het geheel.
Digitale vrijheid onderweg
Reizen anno nu is digitaal. Van tickets tot navigatie, van reserveringen tot communicatie: bijna alles gebeurt online. Dat brengt gemak, maar ook verantwoordelijkheid. De moderne reiziger kiest bewust hoe hij technologie gebruikt. Digitale innovaties laten zien hoe transparantie en flexibiliteit hand in hand kunnen gaan. Ze helpen ons niet om méér vast te leggen, maar om slimmer te plannen.
Balans tussen plannen en genieten
De kunst van reizen is weten wanneer je moet plannen en wanneer je moet loslaten. Te veel voorbereiding kan spontaniteit doden, maar te weinig overzicht zorgt voor onrust. De balans ligt ergens in het midden. Door vooraf te bedenken wat belangrijk is, of dat nu je budget, vervoer of gezondheid is, maak je ruimte om onderweg te genieten.
Een reis zonder zorgen is een reis met aandacht
Vrijheid is niet hetzelfde als impulsiviteit. Wie met aandacht reist, ziet meer, voelt meer en beleeft meer. Overzicht helpt om dat bewustzijn vast te houden, ook in een wereld vol prikkels en keuzes.
Slim omgaan met middelen
Wie reist, weet dat geld niet alleen een praktisch hulpmiddel is, maar ook invloed heeft op rust en vrijheid. Een overzicht van wat je hebt en wat je uitgeeft voorkomt onnodige stress. Door bewust te kiezen hoe je je middelen beheert, digitaal of contant, houd je de regie. Ook nieuwe vormen van technologie, zoals ethereum, maken het makkelijker om inzicht te krijgen in waarde, transacties en mogelijkheden, waar ter wereld je ook bent.
Vrijheid is weten wat genoeg is
Een van de mooiste lessen van reizen is leren wat je écht nodig hebt. Vaak blijkt dat veel minder te zijn dan je denkt. Overzicht helpt om dat te ontdekken. Niet alleen in spullen, maar ook in keuzes. Wanneer je weet wat belangrijk is, kun je de rest loslaten. Dat geldt voor bagage, maar ook voor verwachtingen.
Inzicht als kompas
Inzicht vervangt geen avontuur, maar maakt het dieper. Het helpt je bewuster te reizen en beter te begrijpen wat je onderweg zoekt. Of het nu gaat om een lange roadtrip, een wereldreis of een weekend in eigen land: inzicht is je kompas. Het laat zien waar je vandaan komt, waar je nu bent en waar je naartoe wilt.
Vrijheid door bewust leven
Vrijheid onderweg is meer dan bewegen, het is leven met intentie. Wie bewust reist, kiest niet voor het drukste schema, maar voor het rijkste moment. Overzicht maakt dat mogelijk. In een tijd waarin reizen, technologie en financiën steeds meer met elkaar verweven zijn, wordt inzicht de sleutel tot rust. Ethereum is daar een mooi symbool van: een systeem dat draait om transparantie en autonomie, net als reizen zelf. Want echte vrijheid is niet weglopen van structuur, maar het bewust kiezen van richting.
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[text] => Op reis gaan is voor vele reizigers een droom die werkelijkheid wordt. Nieuwe landen ontdekken, culturen beleven, spontane beslissingen nemen en dagen lang niets plannen. Juist daarom is het belangrijk om vóór vertrek goed na te denken over je verzekering. Want stel: je breekt je enkel tijdens een hike in de bergen, of je raakt ernstig ziek in een land ver van huis. Zomaar even naar Nederland terugkeren kan dan vanwege medische en transportkosten een enorme last zijn.
Waarom een standaard reisverzekering vaak niet volstaat voor een wereldreis
Veel Nederlanders denken bij “verzekering op reis” aan hun standaard zorgverzekering plus een kortlopende reisverzekering, die ze afsluiten voor een vakantie van één à twee weken. Voor een kort weekend weg is dat vaak voldoende maar bij een wereldreis of backpacktrip gaat dat meestal niet op.
- Duur en bestemmingen: Op wereldreis verblijf je maanden tot soms jaren buiten Nederland. Veel kortlopende polissen hebben beperkingen op reisduur of aantal aaneengesloten maanden. Je bent dan misschien niet de hele duur van je reis verzekerd.
- Onverwachte omstandigheden: Reizigers doen spullen bijna voortdurend van de hand, verplaatsen zich vaak over grote afstanden, leven in wisselende omstandigheden en bezoeken soms afgelegen gebieden. Dat vergroot het risico op ongelukken, verlies of diefstal. Met een ruimere dekking ga je relaxter op reis.
- Activiteiten en avontuur: Backpacken betekent vaak hiken, duiken, scooters huren of misschien wil je nog wel iets extremers doen. Zulke activiteiten vallen meestal niet onder de basisdekking. Het is slim om dan een uitgebreidere dekking te kiezen.
Voor wereldreizigers is een goede, volledige reisverzekering die bij voorkeur wereldwijd dekking biedt daarom echt van belang.
Kies tussen kortlopend of doorlopend: wat past bij jouw reisstijl?
Als je langere tijd reist of meerdere reizen per jaar maakt, kun je het beste kiezen tussen een kortlopende of een doorlopende reisverzekering.
- Kortlopende reisverzekering: Handig voor een enkele vakantie van een paar weken; vaak goedkoper, maar met beperkingen op duur en dekking.
- Doorlopende reisverzekering: Een doorlopende polis die het hele jaar geldig is, ongeacht aantal reizen of duur. Ideaal voor reizigers die langdurig op pad zijn of regelmatig rondreizen.
Ben je voor een lange periode onderweg? Of maak je een uitgebreide rondreis? Dan is het verstandig om te kiezen voor een doorlopende reisverzekering. Je weet dan dat al je reizen het hele jaar door goed verzekerd zijn.
Let op deze dekkingen bij avontuurlijke reizen
Waar moet je daarna op letten? Niet elke reisverzekering is hetzelfde. Vooral niet als je gaat backpacken, hiken, duiken of andere avontuurlijke activiteiten onderneemt. Let bij het afsluiten op de volgende zaken:
- Werelddekking (en niet alleen Europa): Als je buiten Europa reist, is werelddekking essentieel.
- Medische kosten en spoedeisende zorg: Zorg dat ziekenhuisopname en noodzakelijke behandelingen in het buitenland vergoed zijn. Kijk zelf ook naar hoe het in het land geregeld is. Zijn er (dure)privéklinieken? Of juist niet?
- Repatriëring en medisch transport: Evacuatie of terugkeer naar Nederland moet goed geregeld zijn. Als je dit zelf moet betalen dan kunnen de kosten flink oplopen.
- Avontuurlijke activiteiten: Activiteiten als bergwandelen, duiken of scooterrijden zijn niet altijd standaard gedekt. Ga je juist naar een wintersportgebied? Dan heb je eigenlijk altijd een uitgebreide dekking nodig.
- Bagage en diefstal: Controleer wat vergoed wordt bij verlies of schade. Bereken vooraf wat de waarde is van de spullen die je meeneemt. Reis je licht of juist met heel veel dure tech?
- Aansprakelijkheid en rechtsbijstand: Zeker bij ongelukken of conflicten in het buitenland kan dit waardevol zijn. Je zit niet te wachten op een langlopend conflict als je alweer terug in Nederland bent.
Wat kost een goede dekking?
Wanneer je denkt “ik reis maar zelden” of “ik hoop dat er niets gebeurt”, kan de verleiding groot zijn om te besparen op je verzekering. Maar de financiële risico’s zijn niet te onderschatten. Een medische behandeling in het buitenland of een noodtransport naar huis kan al snel duizenden euro’s kosten. De premie voor een goede reisverzekering weegt hier ruimschoots tegenop.
Check de kleine lettertjes: veelvoorkomende uitsluitingen en voorwaarden
Een verzekeringspolis is geen garantie op zorgeloosheid. De dekking hangt sterk af van de voorwaarden. Let onder andere op:
- Maximale reisduur per reis: Ook doorlopende verzekeringen kunnen een limiet hebben.
- Uitsluiting van risicovolle activiteiten: Zoals extreme sporten of rijden zonder helm.
- Gedrag onder invloed: Schade onder invloed van alcohol of drugs wordt meestal niet vergoed.
- Eigen risico: Sommige polissen hanteren een eigen bijdrage per schadegeval.
- Verplichte melding aan alarmcentrale: Voor bepaalde situaties moet je eerst contact opnemen.
Zorgeloos op wereldreis met de juiste verzekering
Een wereldreis is een unieke ervaring vol vrijheid en avontuur die je waarschijnlijk niet snel vergeet. Maar bij die vrijheid hoort ook verantwoordelijkheid. Een goede reisverzekering voorkomt dat een ongeluk of ziekte jouw droomreis verandert in een financiële nachtmerrie.
Met een doorlopende reisverzekering ben je goed voorbereid, waar je ook naartoe gaat en kun je met een gerust hart het onbekende tegemoet. Alpina heeft een onafhankelijke vergelijker waarbij je verschillende verzekeraars met elkaar vergelijkt. Dan kun je de beste en voordeligste keuze maken voor jouw situatie.
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As I wrote in my last report, I went to the Osa peninsula on the Southwest Pacific Coast after coming back from Curacao. I spent 3 weeks working with Osa Conservation. Most projects I stayed 4 weeks but this one was more expensive. They told me that it was because the area is very popular for tourists and people who want to work with them. The reason it is so popular is because it’s known as the most biodiverse part of (the already very biodiverse) Costa Rica. Osa Conservation is right next to Corcovado, the biggest National Park of Costa Rica. Therefore it recieves many reseachers and interns from both North- and South America as well as from Europe. During my time there I figured that it’s indeed a special and biodiverse place. One of the interns was studying a complete new termite species they discovered recently. Other people had been building different types of arboreal bridges to find out what sort of animals would use them and which structures and kind of material is more preferred by them. Unfortunately many researchers were away during the Christmas holidays, so I couldn’t participate in their fieldwork. Luckily there was also a seaturtle project and the seaturtle team had to patrol the beach every night for green turtles and olive ripley turtles that would nest at the beach. In contrary to my project in October, here there’s no pouching for the eggs, but there are racoons and coatis that would still predate the nests. The beach area we had to patrol was much smaller, so it was no so exhausting as at Playa Hermosa in October.
It was also the time for the baby turtles to hatch, so during patrol we also had to check the nests in the hatchery so see where turtles started to come to the surface. Many times only a few from the nest would be already at the surface, others would be crawling upwards or still be asleep and only be at the surface next morning. Therefore we also had to go to the hatchery every morning to release those ones. (Luckily the turtle team was big enough so we as volunteers only had to go a few times a week). Though the first time I released the baby turtles was very special and beautiful, actually every time we released them was a beautiful moment, hoping that enough of them will survive their fragile babytime and live long enough to become adults.
There were two species of sea turtles nesting on the beach, the green turtle and olive ridley turtle and it was interesting to see the difference between both species. The baby green turtles are bigger and also much more awake once they are hatching. On the video you can see that the moment we release them at the beach, the green turtle babies go much faster than the other ones.
Next to seeing all these turtles, I indeed saw many other animals and can admit that the chance to see animals is higher than anywhere else in this country. At our place we had spider monkeys passing by almost every day and every morning around 4.00am we heard the howler monkeys waking up. (compared to them, a roaster is a really silent animal). Scarlet macaws and parrots flew over every day and toucans could be heard (and seen if you know where to look for them) frequently. The project had a lot of trails through mainly primary forests where I saw my first squirrel monkeys in the wild. Primary forest means that the forest is original and tropical trees had all changes to grow, so next to animals I was really impressed by the size and height of some of the trees.
A high biodiversity and chance to encounter animals also has a backside though. On the trails, that were full of leaves that fall off during the dry season, the chance to have snakes hidden under it is much higher. Knowing that, definitely made it more adventurous all the times we went out on the trails, especially when I went on my own. And we did see several snakes while walking, sometimes sleeping next to a tree, other times moving next to the paths or even on the roof of the dinner area on the campus. One time though when I was looking for animals with two other volunteers, although looking around all the time, one of the other volunteers accidently did step on a poisonous baby fer-de-lance snake. Luckily it didn’t get offended and just moved towards a tree the moment it got free from the human shoe.
In the end there was just one animal that I started disliking, being a big male coati, who came in our dorm rooms almost every day. In the beginning I had some energybars there, locked in a box, but coatis turn out to be better than racoons in opening bags, zips and boxes. Removing all food to the central kitchen (the only place that could be really locked off for animals) didn’t help; next day it went for my teabags and even opened the bag with silica sachets. After putting these away, he didn’t do any more damage to my stuff. (although he still might have come in the next day). But the next week, I had a banana in my bag hanging on my bed during the night. Coatis are diurnal and still a bit afraid of humans, so it should be fine to have it there only during one night. Well, this coati didn’t know that it was not noctural and came back that night while I was sleeping, trying to steal my banana. After chasing him off, that morning I checked my bags again to be sure there was really no fool or anything interesting left. That day he got so frustrated when checking my room that he started eating my toiletpaper. Some animals really don’t know when to stop annoying people. On the other hand, some interns at the project told me they had snakes under their house, so things can always be more unpleasant.
Looking back I can say that, although I had to pay a lot of money and couldn’t join most of the wildlife programs, I absolutely liked my time there and the 3 meals we got prepared every day with lots of salade and vegetables were very good and professional.
After my stay at Osa Conservation I spend a little week on the other side of the peninsula as a tourist, where I did some snorkeling, hiking and swimming in a little desolate river, hoping to see some rare animals like tapirs and pumas. I saw some tracks but didn’t get the luck to see them live.
Last week I started my last project here in Costa Rica, on a place in the mountains where it’s much cooler. But I’ll tell you about that next time.
I wish you all some warmth, knowing that it’s really winter there. Hold on, when I’m back in a month, I will bring some sunshine.
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No, don’t worry, I am not going to write this report in Spanish.
It’s been a while again since my last update. The last month I didn’t have a lot of time to write, which means I at least didn’t get bored. But now it’s time to get you all updated about what’s been going on in December.
After 3 weeks of working at the Rescate visitor center, as I described in the previous blog, I moved to another part of the country where the rescued animals will be released if possible. Because Rescate eventually tries to release as much animals as possible back into the wild. A 5 hour drive brought me to the Nicoya peninsula, where Rescate has bought some forest area in a quite deserted place. Every two weeks a truck arrives there from the rescue center, bringing food and other supplies and often animals than can be released. Most animals that arrive there are yellow naped amazones and spider monkeys, but also turtles, great currasows and incidently others like possums. I was really looking forward to start volunteering there, and finally be able to release animals back into the wild.
Some animals like turtles and possums can be released directly into the forest when they arrive. Some only need a few days to acclimatise before they are released. The monkeys and most birds that arrive there though, first need to be kept in big cages for several weeks. There they can relax from the transportation and the probable stress while being in the rescue center. Also they need to get used to the new surrounding, type of food and especially, the other animals of their species that are in and around the cage. While they are in their cage, we monitor them to see how they behave and react on each other and on humans.
Many parrots have to learn to fly again after having been in a cage as a pet for many years. Also they have to learn vocalizing as a bird again in stead of imitating human sounds like songs or crying babies. Monkeys especially need to learn behaving amongst other monkeys in a group and more important not being close to humans any more. So during the monitoring we try to see which animals show more natural behaviour, can move around normally and thus have a serious chance of surviving once released.
During my stay we released several yellow naped parrots. Catching them from within the cage was an interesting activity. First we ‘chased’ them with a long pole so they would fly up and down the cage and get tired after a while. When they are tired the stop flying high up and end on the ground, where they are easier to catch. Easier does not mean easy. Once on the ground they defend themselves with trying to bite you and put their claws and nails on you. The claws are okay, but their beaks and incredibly sharp and strong, so we had to wear thick leather gloves and try to catch them from their neck so they can’t reach with their beak anymore. The first time I tried to catch one, I was afraid of hurting them, but soon I figured out that they are not that fragile and you actually need to hold them firmly otherwise they’ll still manage to bite you.
Luckily I never got biten seriously and soon enough learnt how to catch and hold them. Once held firmly, we did some measurements and then brought them outside the cage. There they are put on the fence, where some of them climb up slowly to be close to their peer inside the cage and need some time before they fly off. Others can’t wait to be free and fly away the moment they are released.
Our responsibility didn’t stop there. Since the forest area where the release takes place is not enormous and the managers still don’t know how much food can be found there in the wild, every morning we bring food into the feeders that are around the cages and in the forest and then observe which and how many of the animals come to feed on them. During the time I was there, we always saw several animals that were released recently or in the previous years but also unknown ones that have probably been born in the wild as offspring from the released animals. (When they started the project, there weren’t much wild animals left in the area). So the rewilding is really working out.
In fact, some animals got so succesful that they were starting to be annoying sometimes. On the birdfeeders there were often great currasows and crested guans hanging around, trying to get the food that was meant for the macaws and parrots. On the monkey feeders, there were often big groups of coati invading the whole area so the monkeys got scared away. During my stay here I started to get more annoyed by the coatis, although they still look cute.
After the 2 weeks I spent here, I really learned a lot about the complicated process of releasing animals that have been captured for a long time or never learn foraging from their parents.
By this time I had been in Costa Rica for 3,5 months and I gave myself a small holiday. I went to Bonaire and Curacoa for a week, mainly to do some diving and snorkeling, but also to see how old dutch colonies look like nowadays.
The flights there and back were a little exciting because the islands lay only 60km from Venezuela. Luckily no flights were bombed during these days so I survived.
The coast of both Islands is really beautiful and tropical and it was beautiful to see many fish and also some seaturtles while I was in the water. Even though the coral in many places looked quite depressive and desolated.
Apart from nature I also liked the laid back ambience and friendly Antillian people there. I never new which language to speak with them because the all speak some Dutch, English and Spanish but among themselves mostly speak Papiamento. And that’s the only one I can’t speak[e-1f61c]
I also didn’t realise these islands are very touristic. The central harbor of Willemstad received between 2 and 5 cruise ships daily and also many Dutch people go there for holidays, living or temporal jobs. And though they all come to enjoy the beauty of nature, most of them didn’t give me the impression of being really close to nature. I had a great holiday week there, but I am glad to be back in Costa Rica at my new project on the Osa Peninsula, where people really seem to care about our beautiful planet.
Next time I hope to tell you about this project here. I wish you all a great start of the new year and hope 2026 will be the year where people finally stop being capitalist and get attached to nature again. Salud!
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After a quite depressing report last month, this one I guess will be more fun to read.
Since two weeks I have been working at the Rescate animal rescue centre in Alajuela, close to San Jose.
The rescue centre receives more then 3000 animals every year. Animals that are found in the wild, got injured, or were (illegally) kept as a pet before. All animals that arrive will be checked by a veterinarian for injuries, weaknesses and mental behavior. The goal is to prepare the animals to get back in the wild. Unfortunately, several animals have been to close to humans or didn’t learn from their parents how to survive, and therefore are kept in the rescue centre. Most of them can be watched by visitors, like in a regular zoo. Several animals get to stressed in contact with humans and need to be kept out of sight.
As a volunteer, we work mainly for the animals that can be watch in the visitor area of the rescue centre. Before I go into details about the work I do here, I want to inform you why so many animals arrive here every year.
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Some people just like to have a wild animal as a pet. Wild animal trading is the 3th biggest illegal business in the world, after weapons and drugs. When the police or other governmental agency finds such pet, it will be confiscated and brought here. These animals never will be able to go back into the wild. They are to focused on humans, often had an unappropriate diet and have no idea how to get food in the wild.
Sometimes people find injured animals, for example because of electric wire, regular fences, entangled by human waste or being hit by a vehicle.
Another possibility is that an young animal is orphaned because it’s parents died, often being hunt. If the orphaned animal is old enough, it still has a good chance to survive in the wild when it’s brought in inmediately after being found.
Honestly, when I learned about all the reasons for animals brought into here, I was impressed realising that they manage to get most of these animals back into the wild. Within one week i will go to another part of the country, where these animals are prepared for release into their own nature. That must be a beautiful experience I imagine.
In the meantime here in the rescue centre we try to make live of the enclosed animals a little less boring. The enclosures where they live are furnitured with trees, leaves, branches, water, or whatever looks like their natural surrounding. But it’s still an enclosure, it’s small and the scenery never changes. Their food is normally served directly on a plate so there’s no real challenge for them. Our goal is to give them a little challenge and excitement (called an enrichment) once per week. How?
Every Monday we start thinking about the enrichment we want to give to each of these animals. The enrichment can be sensorial, food, environmental, cognitive and/or social. The idea is to vary the type and form of enrichment every week, to use food, materials, constructions that immitate the natural behaviour and prevent possible dangers in the construction or diet. When we construct the enrichment, we can not use wire, long pieces of rope, (they might get entangled or injured), food with to much fat, sweetness or calories (we don’t want obese animals). As we have to make enrichments for many animals, we can not spend to much time on the preparation (the animal should spend as least as much time using the enrichment as we spend on making it).
Apart from natural behavior we also have to think about the social behavior of the individuals that are in the enclosures. Some animals don’t like to share, or there’s a clear hierarchy in the group. To be sure that all animals in the enclosure get the chance to enjoy the enrichment, we need to make enough of them.
So what kind of enrichments have we been making these weeks?
For example, last week I was making some leave and meat balls for the jaguars. Starting with a little bowl of hay, you enwrap that with a big leave, put a little piece of meat, enwrap with another leave and continue up to 5 layers of leaves with small pieces of meat. Everything is tied together with a string of leave or vine branch. Luckily the climate in this country creates an abundance of fast growing plants like palm leaves, banana leaves and mainly grass leaves, that can also be used as strings by tearing them apart.
Another enrichment is a coconut in which we drilled some holes and filled these up with hay. Between the hay we put some mealworms, little pieces of fruit, spiders or pieces of egg or meat.
This week I was thinking of an appropriate enrichment for the coatis (the type of nosebears I first met in Monteverde cloud forest). Coatis use their nose to scan and dig the floor for insects, seeds or berries, so I wanted to make something where they have to do something similar. Together will one of our assistants we came up with the idea of making some leave racks in which we put some raisins, so they really have to work to find them.
Sometimes to enrichment can be really easy, like spreading some perfume around, or distribute a bucket of camomile enflavoured water through the enclosure.
After putting the enrichment in the enclosure (or throw it in, if we can not go in) we always watch the behaviour of the animals to see if they like the enrichment. Fortunately, in the last two weeks, most animals reacted positive on the enrichments. So although the spend their live locked up in a big cage, at least here they have something every week to look forward to. For us it’s nice to be able to do this for them. And of course it’s also nice to learn about the backstage work of animal centres. One time we had to clean a snake enclosure, while the snake was still inside. The assistant manager of course knew how to handle, but the snake got a bit to curious about what we came in for, so we had to leave it’s house and wait for anothe opportunity when it would be easier to get it.
Well, that’s it for now. I’ll try to share some photo’s and video’s about the enrichments and animal behaviour, but for most examples, you just have to wait untill I’m back and can show you all the rest.
Enjoy the cold autumn, here on the mainland the dry season is slowly starting.
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I hope you have all finishing reading the previous report from last week. (If not, first read that one and next time try to keep up!!)
Well, as promised, today I’ll write you about the reality behind saving turtles. Like every volunteer and tourist, I arrived here last week, hoping to see some turtles laying their eggs at the beach, helping to collect a lot of turtle eggs and especially help getting the new born turtle babies get into the sea safely. Unfortunately there are a lot of misunderstandings behind the process and there’s a lot of boring and exhausting work behind that idyllic picture.
Sea turtles put their eggs always at night, preferably at high tide. This means that saving the nests is always happening at a time I really should be sleeping, anywhere between 10pm and 05am. Some patrols only last a few hours but a week ago I had several night patrols lasting from 01am until 06am. While walking along the beach, it’s not allowed to put a white light as that will distract the turtles. During my first patrol I discovered that my red light is not very bright so I actually couldn’t see a lot. Luckily after a few times I got used to the poor sight and could start distinguishing the wood logs and branches from the sand on the beach, and also the slightly different sand colour where a turtle had been walking. Whenever we found such a trail, we followed it slowly inland; on a few occasions we saw the turtle actually being busy making her nest or putting the eggs. The first time I saw that, was very special and emotional. Also impressive because an average turtle nest contains between 80 and 100 eggs!
Most of the times there was no turtle anymore, which can indicate several options; in the most positive scenario the turtle has finished her nest, got back into the ocean and the nest is still intact. Often though there was no nest, probably because the turtle got disturbed by some animal, movement or white light from a car or house and just went back into the ocean. The third and worst case posibility though is that there was a nest but the nest is destroyed. At night there are a lot of racoons (attracked by the food people leave near their house or on the beach) and other predator animals (like house dogs walking free on these protected areas of the beach). And there are many poachers here in Costa Rica who steal the eggs from the nests and sell them.
Turtles eggs have been a delicacy in these countries for many years and although now it is officially illegal to collect and sell the eggs, many poor people still keep on doing it. And many people believe there’s some afrodisiacum or longevity supporting substance in the eggs, so they will still eat it.
So there are many reasons while these turtle nests need protection from getting destroyed. And walking at night at the beach is not without danger. There are several small rivers ending at the beach and after a heavy rainfall, there might be soms crocodiles hanging around there, waiting for soms fish, small animals or a nice human leg they can feed on.
Next to the poachers trying to steal the eggs, there’s also the posibility of drugscartels hanging around at the beach and you don’t want to get too close to them. That’s why on some parts of the beach we can also go in company of National Park security Rangers or Police Coastguards.
When we do find an intact turtle nest, we preferably dig up the nest so we can transfer the eggs to the hatchery where it’s suppost to be safe from humans and animals. The eggs are soft shelled and very fragile which means that you can only touch them very gentle with alcohol cleaned hands (and the alcohol has to be evaporated and washed off with clean beach sand). The eggs need to be transported in soft bags that are free of chemicals or micro-organisms. The bags can get heavy after walking with them for a while but may only be put down once you are at the hatchery or in specific cases also on clean sand from the intermareal area (area between low and high tide).
The hatchery used to be just a place on the beach close to where we stay, marked by bamboo sticks and patrolled by anyone around to make sure no one enters the hatchery. New research has changed to rules for hatcheries though. Bamboo wood is not strong enough and might contains micro-organisms like fungi after being used for several months. Ants and other insects can also infect the eggs, so the hatchery must have special protection tissues that avoid insects from getting in. The sand used in the hatchery must be free of stones, roots, insects etc. The hatchery must be built away from artificial light and be protected from real high tides coming in and transporting wood and human-made debris towards it. It also has to be close to the place where most turtles nest. All these new requirements meant that the new hatchery had to be build away from the refuge where we stay and close to a habitated suburb of the drugstown Jaco. For us to get there, means driving for almost 40 minutes, of which 20 minutes crossing 3 km of dirt road in very bad conditions. (the road is not owned by the government and the people owning the road and the houses along it don’t want to get it fixed). The shorter way would be walking along the beach but there’s a big river in between full of crocodiles so that’s not a safe option.
Once the first eggs are buried in that hatchery, there must be 24/7 guarding to avoid animals and humans trying to get it. Officially the foundation has local volunteers living close, who take that responsibility. In practice, many of these volunteers cancel their shift all of a sudden, or don’t really do their job and just hang around at the beach. A week ago, when we entered the hatcherry at night, ready to bury soms fresh eggs, we discovered a racoon had just come in and destroyed a whole nest (luckily only one, because in 30 minutes it could have destroyed all the nests that were inside).
Last week there were hardly any local volunteers to guard the hatchery, so we as international volunteers had to be there in shifts the whole week. We were supposted to do the shifts by 2 people, but some volunteers got a bit sick so eventually it turned out I had to do most shifts by myself. Especially during the night shifts (it’s dark here between 5pm and 5am) it’s a hard and boring job. There is very bad internet reception, there’s no toilet, electricity or running water there. We have to be outsite, close to the hatchery and checking for animals every few minutes. On one of these nightshifts I saw 4 racoon and 1 possum within 2 hours, so at least my presence was usefull that night. Also at any time during day and night. There will arrive so people by car or foot. The beach near the hatchery and parking area are closed to public, but as some people use the isolated place to sell drugs, it recommended to not talk to them but just call the police. (which is difficult if you have no phone reception and the police would come anyway, while they have bigger drugsproblems to solve at nights).
During the day shifts we had another challenge. The edges of the hatchery are protected and stabilised with sand bags, plastic bags filled with beach sand. Unfortunately on one side of the hatchery, all of a sudden many of these bags got torn open. Probably some person walked over the bags, which shouldn’t be a problem normally, but the plastic appeared to be completely deteriorated and was falling apart completely. As the sand in the hatchery has to be completely free of plastic, this means we have to get all these plastic particles out of there. There is no money to rent a shovel and just remove all the contaminated sand (and what can you do with all that sand; you don’t want the plastic particles getting into the ocean or somewhere in nature!)
So I have been trying several ways to get the least amount of contaminated sand;
-mixing the sand with seawater didn’t work, half of the plastic didn’t float
-putting the sand through a big metal sieve didn’t work, the plastic broke down into even small pieces and went through.
-using a kitchen sieve gave some positive results, I could separate more plastic but not the smaller parts (of which the ocean is completely filled up these days)
-using a linen bag after that made me get most of the plastic out, but still not everything.
Knowing this, now I have to start cleaning the sand that I separated already (about 10% of the whole area). That will take a few days so I probably won’t be able to finish it, as this week is my last week at the turtle project.
As you might start to understand, protecting turtles requires a lot more than just going to the beach and release some turtle hatchlings. Still this is what most tourists see and do when they come to Costa Rica during hatchling season. Many people here collect turtle eggs by them self, put them in the ground at the beach in front of their house or company, wait 50 days for the turtles to hatch and them let people pay a lot of money so they can come to the beacht at daylight and each hold one babyturtle which they can put at the sea ridge. The chance of these turtles to survive is almost zero! Why?
-The eggs in these nests are buried with bare hands without taking protection so the eggs are contaminated and many of the eggs won’t develop properly.
-Baby turtles always hatch at night, and than need some time to orientate themselves so they know where they are and can come back years later to lay their own eggs. They use the time to digest the last food left in the egg and gain the strength to go towards the sea.
-Waiting to release them until the tourists arrive causes them to get desorientated by the daylight, not having enough strenght anymore to survive the first day in the sea, having many birds and reptiles around that can eat them the moment they get into the sea.
-Putting the turtles directly at sea ridge means they miss the time to orientate so they can come back later to lay their eggs.
-You really mix up natural selection. A nest of 100 eggs normally means around 80 turtles coming out alive. Some of them are blind or otherwise physically injured and won’t make it to the sea. These are the ones that predators normally take so the healthy ones get more change to survive.
-Last but not least, the babies are very vulnerable and direct contact with human hands or other unnatural substances will harm them.
As you see, I learned a lot these weeks about what’s right and wrong when trying to save turtles and the necessary work requires a lot of boring night work, ruined biorhythm, continuously changing plans caused by heavy weather and failing volunteers and living a primitive life because there’s no money to do things the easy or efficient way. And after all my work, I haven’t seen one baby turtle yet (all the problems above meant we only started the actual burying of the eggs in the hatchery 2 weeks ago). I am happy I could do my part and helping this small not profit foundation, I have learned a lot but it’s been some though weeks.
In one week I will start my next project at Rescate Animal rescue centre. That’s gonna be a whole new and different experience again, but for sure, not so much nightwork and much more actually working with the animals themselves.
I realise this report has been more serious than the previous ones, but yeah, that’s life sometimes. Have a great time and I’ll be back in a few weeks.
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[title] => Mountainous cloudforests and a sleepy volcano
[message] => Hi, it’s me again[e-1f590]
While everyone in the Netherlands is busy with the upcoming elections [e-1f534] next Wednesday, I am living a more primitive [e-26c8]life at the Pacific, trying to safe as much turtle eggs [e-1f422][e-1f423]as possible.
After behaving like a ostrich for half a year, not wanting to follow the daily news anymore, last week I opened up my NOS app again, curious about how the political campaign was developing. I secretly hoped that people would finally realise that Climate Change [e-1f30a] and Nature degeneration [e-1f334] really is something we all should be worried about. I noticed they’re not[e-1f629]. I still hope for a positive result[e-2705] after Wednesday but in the meantime I feel even more encouraged to keep on doing my best to safe the last bits of nature we have left, giving up a lot of night sleep [e-1f635] to get that done.
But before I’ll tell you all about what it means to save turtles and their eggs, I should start where I finished 3 weeks ago; the Monteverde CloudForest[e-2601][e-1f333].
Monteverde literally means ‘green mountain[e-26f0]’ and is called so because it’s a rainforest area on a elevation of about 1500-1800m a.s.l. For that reason, the rainforest and area are often hidden in the clouds[e-1f32b], giving it a slightly different habitat and therefore called cloudforest. During the 4 days I stayed there, I visited different parts of the forest area. Next to the several species of monkeys[e-1f435][e-1f412] I had seen already at the Carribean Coast, I met a whole family of Coati (a kind of nose bear[e-1f43c]) sniffing around among the trees right next to the path, some funny looking, rather shy agoutis [e-1f43f](a kind of rodent) and also some beautiful birds [e-1f54a] with colourful long tail feathers.
After walking through the parks for 2 days, the third day I did it the way Monteverde is most famous for; getting around at canopy level. Most tourists like to do it by zipline, crossing the canopy by distances up to 1000m in just a minute, but in that way you don’t really see animals. The other way is by crossing over hanging bridges, so you can actually see the trees from the top and also the birds (and some monkeys) that enjoy the fruits and seeds high up the trees.
Because of low season, I was one of the very few tourists at that day taking the hanging bridges, so I could take my time. After 2 hours going slower than a sloth I had crossed the whole trail, went for a coffee[e-2615] and wanted to go around once more. The ticket unfortunately was valet for one entry only, but after talking for 10 minutes with the guards, they let me get in for a second time [e-1f600]
Although I enjoyed the scenery [e-1f3de] of the parks and the lower temperature in the mountain these days, the entry fees of at least $25 for each park is much higher than it should be. (The Cahuita national Park I was the week before only asked for a suggested $5-$10 donation). Fortunately there is a really mystical nice place, free of charge and only 10 minutes walking from the village centre. I only had to walk down a small path towards a little river, completely hidden by the clouds, where I found a very unique tree formation. The tree itself, standing on the edge above the river, has grown it’s roots so well, that it crosses the river both from above throught the air as well as all the way down to and through the river below, creating a magnific Lord of the Rings scenery. Although free of charge and so close to the centre of the village, the two times I went there, I was the only one around. What else do you need to forget about your problems [e-262f] and enjoy live at the very moment[e-1f607]
After these 4 days I left the mountains to get in a more touristic place, next to the Arenal Volcano [e-1f5fb]. Getting there from Monteverde we had to cross an artificial lake (a hydro-electric reservoir) where we had a beautiful close view on the cone shaped volcanic mountain. Also from the town/touristic hub accomodating all visitors, you felt like the volcano was right next to you, giving beautiful views during day and night.
Many wealthy people book a big room in one of the newly build 5star hotels, which provide ‘natural’ hot pools to swim [e-1f3ca]. Luckily I met some locals who informed me where to get to the real hot water from the volcano free of charge. The host from my hostel advised me to go after dark, when it’s less crowded and air temperature much nicer and invited me and the other hostel guests to go together that evening. For 2 hours we enjoyed the natural pool and sounds of frogs [e-1f438] and running water, lighted by only some candlelights[e-1f56f] (and made me miss having Welmoed there with me[e-2764]).
Next day was the last day of my trip before I had to go back to San Jose and get to my next project and I decided to walk a trail getting to the bottom of the last Lava flow of 1968 [e-1f30b] which gave an even better view on the mountain cone. Getting there I crossed some forest again, where I saw several new bird species, like a big kind of tree turkey [e-1f983].
After getting back in town, I treated myself on a nice vegetarian casada (a local food plate [e-1f37d] with lots of vegetables[e-1f33d][e-1f345][e-1f346], salad, beans and tortillas[e-1f32e]).
These 2 weeks of holiday in between my voluntary projects have been really nice, giving me the opportunity to get a wider impression of the nature and people of this beautiful but also poor and ‘not so safe as they tell in the brochures[e-1f4d7]’ country.
Time to start saving turtles, as you’ll read in my next report[e-1f4f0], coming up soon [e-1f551] …..
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[message] => Welcome back dear followers. It’s time for a new update. I am writing this report while sitting in a real backpackers hostel in San Jose. Although I’ve been in this country for almost 1,5 months now, it’s actually my first day in the Capital. As I might remember, the day I arrived here I went inmediately towards the ‘study the rainforest’ project. And Ididn’t regret it, because San Jose is just a big city with a lot of poverty and not much to see or do apart from shopping for clothes or terrible plastic toys. So there hardly any tourists here and apart from the centre parts it’s not recommended to walk around anyway.
But okay, let’s start where I finished my last report. A week before I finished at the rainforest project, two new students from the Netherlands arrived, which made my very happy because one of them brought my new phone (which I ordered in the NLs to safe a lot of money). So from that day on I could make really nice photo’s again (which was honestly the main reason to buy that phone). During my last weekend there, we went on a boat trip through one of the rivers here, watching wildlife from the water. That day my phone proved already that it was worth the investment. We saw a lot of birds, iguanas, some monkeys and even a sloth (If you do a tour without seeing at least one, it’s really bad luck). Although some birds were to far away to get a nice photo of them, I at least got some nice photo’s of some of them as well as some monkeys.
This boat trip also was a sort of starting my touristy time here. In the reserve and compound where we worked and lived we saw many frogs, spiders, butterflies, some birds and eventually some snakes (the last night there we found a small cute coffee snake on the path to the accomodation that liked to go around my wrist like a bracelet), so seeing some monkeys, iguanas and waterbirds was something new for me here.
My first destination while travelling by myself was the less touristic little town of Cahuita, which is especially known for snorkeling. The day I arrived there I found out that i could just get into the water from my hostel and see nice fish, although the reef and coral life was not very brilliant. Next day I went snorkeling close to the national park shore. Go snorkeling there is only allowed with a guide and on a tour which of course means paying a lot of money. I didn’t find that, looking forward to see a more vivid reef and dito marine animals. Unfortunately the reef wasn’t really more colourful, although we did see some reef sharks, manta rays and lion fish so it was still nice. After the snorkeling we walked back through the national park with the guide and again saw some snakes, lizards, 3 sweatwater turtles and again a sloth (though far away and always hard to spot as they appear big termite bowls or knobs in the tree).
The next day I went back into the park by myself. In the beginning local guides told me to take a guide, otherwise I wouldn’t see much. Well, they were wrong. I first saw a family of racoons playing around like dogs. A little bit later I saw some families of capuchin monkeys, with one of them getting pretty close so I decided to step back in case he wanted to take my camera, which he didn’t do. A little bit later when I was halfway the trail at a small picknick area I wanted to take a snack. All of a sudden a capuchin monkey came running towards my bag. I tried to safe by bag with nuts from him stealing it, but the guy was smart enough to just go into my backpack and going to steal my bag of dried fruits. Although they are really small, they have sharp teeth and I didn’t want to fight with him so let him take the bag and run off into a tree (and actually I was also a bit shocked for a short moment by what he did). I was most worried about him eating the plastic of getting sick by eating to much fruits in one time but of course monkeys are smart enough to just rip open a bag and probably also know when to stop eating. Anyway I wasn’t waiting for him to finish the bag and throw it down from the trees, so continued walking for another ten minutes until I felt safe enough to sit down and have my own snack.
At the end of the trail I even saw a nosebear, which was really the first time in my life to see that in the wild; so it was a really interesting and educational walk that day, without needing a guide.
Next day I had to get up early to catch a boat taking me all the way from Limon to Tortuguero through the cannels and rivers near the Carribean see. Although we went really fast, it took more than 3,5 hours on the boat. Tortuguero is surrounded by cannels so the only way to get there is by boat (or airplane if you’re really rich and lazy). Tortuguero is about the only place on the Carribean coast where you can watch sea turtles come ashore to lay eggs and next to Puerto Viejo therefore the only real touristic place on the Carribean Coast. I think I was the only tourist there NOT going to see the turtles. The tour is $35 and I’ll be working with sea turtles for a whole month soon. I did book a early morning canoe tour to get around throught to canals; although the wildlife is about the same as at the Pacuare river, by canoe we could even get much closer to the animals without chasing them away. Now I could picture all those herons and cormorants from really close and even see a young alligator waiting for one of us putting his hand in the water. the most impressed I was though by a strange bird, which could turn it’s wings inside out while drying them in the wind, making it look like a real Buddhist bird.(see the photo to see what I mean).
Later that morning I made a hike in the tortuguero national park while I saw a lot of cute little lizards (mainly the whiptail lizards) and also a lot of spider monkeys. They are also funny to look at and don’t get so easily aggressive to humans).
The next most special thing to do in Tortuguero is walking up a vulcanic hill. To get there I had to take another boat (it started to look a bit like Venice, taking boats to get anywhere). Getting to the top of the hill meant going up about 500 stairs but it was really nice to have a view on the canals and the coastline after having been there for more than a day.
After that full day of watching nature, today I made it back to San Jose as I wrote above, but only to get an early morning bus to Monteverde tomorrow. That is part of the cloud forest of Costa Rica, which means it’s higher up in the mountains, so hopefully it’s cooler there. For sure there’s even more propability to get rain there, so let’s see what that means in real life. I’ll let you know next time.
Let’s end with the same request as last time. I also like to know about all of your lifes, so if you have time, make me happy and write something by whatsapp, email or just replying on this blog.
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It has been quiet here for the last 2 weeks. That doesn’t mean nothing happened here but a lot of things I described in my previous blog, quickly became normal. After a few days I got used to the humidity and feeling a bit sweaty all the time. Also the pinto (the rice and beans) has become normal and as it’s a healthy meal, I even appreciate it now as a start of the day.
Also hearing the sound of the toucans, seeing gecko’s, butterflies and hummingbirds all around me, had become normal (although I still haven’t managed to take a photo of a hummingbird drinking from a flower). And I also still enjoy seeing the leave frogs near the pools at night, as well as the strawberry poison frogs (officially called the dendrobates pomilio). Last Friday we walked a particular part of the reserve (called a transect) to cound all amphibians and reptiles we see on that part (this is done weekly to collect data about the differences in presence/absence of different species in the different areas during the years). On that particular morning we saw 55 of these strawberry frogs in a time period of about 1,5 hours!
Another reason I haven’t been reporting these weeks is because my phone almost died caused by the humidity and heath. One morning after I made a phonecall, al of a sudden the screen didn’t work anymore, so I couldn’t see anything on the phone. Keeping it in the only AC cooled room in the whole compound for a day and night didn’t really work. Luckily one moment the light came back a bit and I could put the screenlight on almost maximum. Since then I can use it again, but making clear photo’s became more difficult and sometimes the light still disappears, so I decided to buy a new phone. Our costarican colleague told me that cellphones in Costa Rica are extremely expensive because of the import tax. He was right; the phone I decided to buy would cost me €1300 here, in NL it would only be around €900. Luckily next weekend a new student will arrive here from the Netherlands, so I ordered my phone there and she will bring it to me. How nice!
Apart from looking for a new phone, I’ve also been busy planning my mini holiday for the first 2 weeks of October. Between the projects I’m working now and the next one (the Corcovado turtle conservation) I have two weeks to travel around. There’s plenty of public transport but it is difficult to find bus schedules online and buses frequently arrive later at their destination than scheduled because of traffic jams or road construction detours. Renting a car by myself is too expensive so I do rely on the public buses.
Also I am planning the second part of my sabbitical, when I come back here after Christmas.
In the meantime I have been planting some trees along the trail through the small forest we have here on the compound and also started to put the information signs about the different animals and plants that are likely to be found and seen here on the compound and in the reserve.
Last but not least I was asked to make a nice sign to mark the end of one of the transects I’ve been writing about above, so I even had to put in practice my Waldorf creativity of the last years.
It might look like I have been stuck here in the wild for weeks. Luckily we do leave this area sometimes during the weekend. Last weekend we went to a much more touristic place at the beach, called Puerto Viejo. Although it’s only about 100km from here, it took us 3 hours to get there, taking two different buses and waiting on the bus station for an hour between both of them.
It was an experience to suddenly see more ‘gringos’ (officially the name for people from the US but used for any western tourist), because here in the village we are the only ones. With the tourists come all the restaurants serving western food, the people selling all touristy stuff, but more important, the nice vivent ambience with music played from the different bars and restaurants. Swimming in the sea is different from the Netherlands. The waves are much bigger but the current also much stronger, so we could only swim in a small area and close to the shore to be safe (which I did, because I promised Welmoed not to drown during my stay here). I even rented a surfboard for an hour to try and catch some waves (I took a few lessons 10 years ago in Sydney). I realised again how difficult and straining it is to learn surfing, though I did enjoy it in the meantime.
Well, now you are up-to-date again. I like it when you leave some comments so I know people read my newspapers and appreciate them [e-1f60a]
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After I arrived at the project location in the nature just outside a small village called San Miguel, I had a small dinner of rice and beans and than made a short nightwalk around the compound with the other students. First thing you learn is that whenever you go off the paved paths you have to wear boots and a light if it’s dark. There can always be a snake, scorpion or something else on your way that will bite or sting you. On the small walk we did there were several frogs, (like the poisonous strawberry frog), spiders and even a small snake eating all the eggs from a frog (see the photo on my previous blog).
After this nice first meeting with wildlife I finally could have a great sleep. Because of the little jetlag, the neverending jungle sounds and the high humidity I still woke up very early. After breakfast I was supposed to have an easy going start up on the compound, but one of the students wasn’t able to join the work in the reserve so all of a sudden I found myself going into the wild jungle.
What we had to do that day is set out the edges of a plot of 50x50 meters in a part of the 10 km2 reserve area. After walking for about 30 minutes in a very uneven and slippery terrain we could start setting out the plot. The first part of it is just walking perfectly north, trying to make a small 1m wide path of 50meters long, which means cutting away all leaves and branches in that strip while trying to not remove any more than necessary. Once it’s cleared, you put a pole on every 10 meter distance to indicate the borde your making. This is very important because the plants will grow back very fast so by this way at least you can later recognise the border of the plot you made. After the first edge is finished, you make the other 3 edges of 50meter each.
Well, this all sounds funny and easy in theory, but as the surface is very uneven, slippery and somethings there’s a hole or a big tree in your way, in reality it takes a lot of time to find a square that’s possible to set out. And of course when we were halfway our first edge, it started to rain. It took 5 minutes for the rain to reach the ground passing the full canopy, but as it rained for more than an hour we got completely soaked. Putting a raincoat wouldn’t help because it’s still hot and humid, so a raincoast would make you even more wet and sweaty.
After we finished our first 50meters of the plot, we had our lunch in the rain. Lunch was mainly rice and beans again, and some left over salad from the day before. After lunch we dediced to go back to the compound, as it had just become to slippery to continue. At the farm I took a nice cold shower, but 5 minutes later I was sweating again. Being in the rainforest means getting used to the heath and humidity. And also to the rice and beans (called pincho in Costa Rica) because that’s what they normally eat here 3 times a day. It’s healthy with a lot of carbohydrates, but coming from Europe it’s quite a difference.
Because the sun sets around 5.30pm here but the humidity stays, around 8pm you really feel tired so I went to bed early. Next morning I woke up at 5.00am again because of the rain and sunlight. It looks like I also have to get used to a new daily rhythm, going with the light of day. This day we went back to the reserve, but this time we could stay on the small paths in a part of the reserve that was bought during the beginning of the project 8 years ago and has been studied since than. Our job was to determine all the butterflies and dragonflies we came across during the half day walk. It was my first experience with trying to catch butterflies. In the beginning I was always to slow, and afraid of hurting them, but after a while I learned how to catch them in a animalfriendly way. Apart from many different butterflies and dragonflies, we also saw many strawberry frogs and also some cool black-and-green frogs along the path. Beautiful but again very poisonous. Nature has evolved in a very interesting way here, with an enormous amount and variety of animals who all found a different but clever way to avoid being eaten by other animals.
In the afternoon we first got a presentation of two students who analysed the data gathered in the first year about trees in the different parts of the reserve to find out if there are big differences in the variety, density etc between these different parts that have a different history in previous landuse and potential deforestation. After the presentation we all went to the local football field to play a weekly Friday afternoon footballgame with the local people.
In the weekends there is no official research or fieldwork, so Saturday morning I went with another volunteer to a recently build birdwatchtower on an edge of the reserve, which borders Barbilla national park (a national park where hardly any people are allowed to go in, so wildlife is still quite intact there). As birds are most active right after sunrise, which is around 5am, we had to get up at 4am. That sounds early but as I mentioned before, daily timeschedules are different here so it wasn’t even that hard to get up so early. And definately worth it. For the first time since I arrived there was a clear sky and the low hanging clouds in from of a vulcano on the horizon turned beautifully pink. After the sunrise we saw many parakeets, mostly in couples but also some big flocks, with their green fluorescent coloured feathers shining beautifully in the sunlight. Next to the tower were some woodpeckers flying in and out their hole and what made me really happy was to see some toucans. So great to see them fly in the free sky and not in a small cage.
After two hours the air became to hot for most of the birds. Only the vultures appreciated it much, floating around on the thermals. We went back to the compound, had a nice breakfast (by now you can guess what it was) and then I finally could start writing this weblog. I made a beginning 3 days ago but after one hour half of the keys on my laptop didn’t work anymore because of the humidity. Luckily Maarten (the Dutch guy who started this project 8 years ago together with his partner Hanneke) went into town and could buy an external keyboard today to help me out.
In the afternoon we joined the birthday party of one of the sons from Maarten and Hanneke. Different from the Netherlands, here the parents of the invited kids all stay during the party to talk while the kids are playing and running around. The party ends with the children trying to hit a piñata while being blindfolded. When it breaks a lot of candy comes out, so of course all the children (and apparently also the mothers) were all looking forward to that final part of the celebration. Feeling lazy from the beers food and birthday cake I couldn’t avoid craving for a small nap.
In the evening we were invited at Maarten and Hanneke’s house to do a funny ‘guess the music hit’ game. We all got so enthousiastic playing it that we kept playing untill midnight. (Remember that all the days before I went to bed between 8pm and 9pm). Luckily I didn’t drink that evening and next morning I could easily wake up at normal time, although nothing was planned for that Sunday. I really enjoyed a day of hanging around, finishing this weblog report and relax.
So that’s it for this week. I realise these two reports have been very detailed so I’ll try to be more to the point next time. Tomorrow is another day in the reserve, continuing making the plot lines. Tomorrow evening a whole bunch of students from the Netherlands will arrive so from Tuesday there will be less opportunities for me to join going into the reserve to do the fieldwork.
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It’s been about 2,5 days since I left Nijmegen en said goodbye to Welmoed. After a stay-over in Amsterdam to catch my flight in time, I flew to Costa Rica with a 6hours step over time in Toronto. After being on the way for about 24h I arrived in San Jose airport at midnight. I was planning to take an Uber to the hostel but without internet connection that was pretty difficult so eventually I had to take an official taxi. Luckily the taxidriver was very nice and put me off at the right place, even waiting for me to get inside the hostel safely. (San Jose is not very safe when it’s dark). The hostel looked closed but fortunately there was still someone at the reception. He told me there was no reservation under my name and the hostel was fully booked but after I showed my email conversation where I made the booking half a year ago, he suddenly found an room that was still free.
The next morning I woke up early, which eventually turned out to be quite convenient. First I had to find some breakfast, but most places had only either meatpies or sweet bread. Luckily I had some food left from the plane so I didn’t need to starve. Than I had to wait for the shops to open so I could buy a local SIM card. Again the people in the shops were very helpful so I started to relax and trust the Tico’s (the people from Costa Rica) a bit more every time.
With my local simcard installed I was ready to continue the trip to finally arrive at my first project. From the hostel area I had to take a bus into the centre. Without traffic that would take just 20 minutes but because the whole road seemed to be one traffic jam it took more than an hour. From the bus station I had to take a taxi again to arrive at an other bus station from where to buses to the Caribbean (East) side of the country leave. I took my changes to try Uber again and after 2 drivers had already gone, the 3th one finally stopped where I was. Then, once I arrived at the right busstation I could finally take the bus to Bataan. Once out of San Jose area I got the first sights of the rainforest with some small waterfalls along the road. Late afternoon I finally arrived at the destination. After a quick diner of rice and beans I did a little walk on the area with the other students and volunteers where we saw some cool frogs and even a tiny snake eating all the frog eggs from a big leave. Nature can be hard sometimes.
After this great first introduction into CostaRican wildlife I finally could go to bed at ease with the many sounds of nature including some really heavy rain during the night.
So far for now. Tomorrow I hope to write about everything I saw and did in the first 3 days I have been on this project.
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Vanmorgen ontbeten bij Guayoyo Coffee House.
Hier hadden we al een paar keer brood gehaald.
Heerlijk ontbijt.
Daarna de koffers al voor zover mogelijk ingepakt en de laatste was gedraaid zodat we zoveel mogelijk schoon mee terug kunnen nemen.
Om 13:30 lunchen in ons vertrouwde restaurant Coconutz Brewhouse.
Inmiddels zijn we bekende gasten en bij het afrekenen krijgen we hartelijk groeten en hopelijk tot snel weerzien.
Dit is zeker de moeite waard om te lunchen.
Dan op souvenir jacht. Valt behoorlijk tegen. Er is van alles te verkrijgen tegen woekerprijzen wat er echt niet aan af te zien is. We hebben toch een en ander kunnen vinden. De rest komt morgen wel in San José.
Daarna onze duikspullen ophalen bij Rich Coast Divers en terug naar het appartement voor een laatste duik in het zwembad en daarna de laatste spullen inpakken. Morgen om 9 uur worden we opgehaald om terug te gaan naar San José waar we nog 1 nacht doorbrengen.
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[message] => Helaas zit het er weer op. Vandaag de laatste 2 duiken van deze vakantie.
De eerste duik van vandaag is wel bijzonder. Het is namelijk de 400e duik van Ingrid.
Tijdens de briefing wordt ze door iedereen gefeliciteerd.
Onze eerste duik is bij Virador. Een mooie rotspartij die net boven water uitkomt.
Weer volop vis, haaien en Roggen. Er wordt zelfs een schil[ad waargenomen.
Onze tweede duik is op Monkey Head. Een rotspartij vlak bij de eerste duikstek dus maar kort varen en daar de 1 uur wachttijd tussen de duiken doorbrengen onder het genot van Ananas, Watermeloen, een cake en water of ice tea.
Mooi ook tijd om de eerste duik te bespreken.
Ook de tweede duik is visrijk. Vele scholen met vis kruisen ons pad. Ook hier weer haaien en natuurlijk zoals op ieder duik onze geliefde Puffer Fish.
Na het duiken is het zorgdragen voor het materiaal. Het moet goed drogen zodat we het overmorgen veilig mee kunnen nemen. We kunnen de spullen laten drogen bij de Duikschool.
Duiken zit er voor deze vakantie weer op.
Vandaag het normale ritueel volgen en morgen gaan voorbereiden van het vertrek.
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[message] => Vandaag gaan we weer naar Catalina Island.
De plek waar mogelijk Manta Roggen zijn.
We zijn weer met 5 duikers en 3 begeleiders.
Voordeel van de 3 begeleiders is, dat wanneer iemand vlug door zijn lucht heen is, 1 begeleider mee omhoog gaat voor de saftey stop en de rest door kan duiken.
Maar goed ook want een van de duikers is na 30 minuten al door zijn lucht heen.
Deze keer hebben we meer geluk bij South Point met de Manta Roggen.
Er komen verschillende Roggen voorbij. Zelfs zo plotseling dat ik te laat ben om een foto te maken.
Het zijn zeer indrukwekkende beesten.
Verder zien we weer een aantal witpunt rif haaien en het nodige ander onderwater leven.
Voor onze 2e duik in de ochtend verlaten we toch Catalina Island en gaan we naar Rainbow Rock.
Hier zouden meer scholen vis zitten en meer kleur variatie.
De scholen vis klopte, de kleuren viel wel mee. Wel een mooie duik met een onverwacht einde.
Voorbij de rots was er een hele vreemde stroming waar het best even werken was. Er was ook heel veel zuurstof in het water waardoor het zicht af en toe 0 was.
Toch weer het nodige onderwater leven mogen aanschouwen.
Na de duik en opruimen van de spullen weer lunchen in ons inmiddels vertrouwde restaurant, CocoNut.
De obers kennen ons inmiddels en onze geliefde tafel is meteen beschikbaar.
Verder de dag weer in de rustmodus. Duiken in de vroege ochtend en 34C rond middaguur vraagt energie.
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[title] => Duikdag 4
[message] => De 4e dag duken in Playas del Coco.
Vandaag zijn we in het totaal met 5 duikers en 3 begeleiders.
Wij bevinden ons in een Europese groep.
Onze Divemaster is een Spaanse. De assistent is Duits. De 3e duiker is een Fransman en wij zijn Nederlands.
De eerste duiksite wordt Estudiantes. Een duik max 18 meter met veel roggen en zelfs schildpadden. Zelf niet gezien maar Ingrid had ze op de film.
Mooie duik, het zicht was iets beter maar nog steeds niet meer dan 10 meter en wazig.
De tweede duik maken we in redelijk ondiep water. Max 12 meter diep maar zeker de moeite waard. Punta Argentina. Een van de bijzondere dingen aan deze duikstek zijn de school Puffer vissen. Heel bijzonder omdat je deze normaal alleen solitair ziet. Verder heel veel schorpioen vissen. Voor de onervaren kijker best een zoekplaatje.
Verder de dag weer buseniss as useul.
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Hiervoor gaan we naar Catalina Island.
De eerste duik is op South Point.
Hier zien we uiteindelijk een paar Manta's. Helaas wat verder weg dus een echt duidelijk foto zat er niet in.
Ook hier viel het zicht erg tegen maar toch fijn gedoken.
De 2e duikstek wordt The Wall, het noordelijke gedeelte van de eilanden groep.
Helaas hier geen Manta's meer maar wel weer een leuke duik.
Na het duiken weer lunchen bij ons inmiddels favoriete plekje. Vandaag was het extra druk tijdens de lunch dus langer wachten op eten.
Rest van de dag rustig aan. Het is momenteel 34gr met een gevoelstemperatuur van tegen de 40gr.
Tijd voor een afkoeling in het zwembad bij het appartement.
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[message] => Vandaag gaan we voor de tweede dag duiken.
Er staan weer 2 duiken op het programma.
We hebben afgesproken dat we om kwart voor 8 aan de kust zijn zodat we niet eerst naar de duikschool hoeven. Scheelt ons dik een half uur.
De eerste duik wordt een diepe duik op "Sorpresa".
Het blijkt vandaag een duik met sterke stroming en slecht zicht te worden. Dat in combinatie met een diepe duik is eigenlijk niet de beste combinatie.
Bij het te water gaan zitten er al veel kleine kwallen in het water. Mooi maar best irritant.
Afdalen langs de ankerlijn anders ben je de rest kwijt.
Voor mij wordt het uiteindelijk geen prettige duik. Ik ga snel door mijn lucht heen en nadat de duikleider besluit om snel naar een andere kant te flipperen schiet ik van 100 Bar naar 50 Bar. Voordat ik aan het opstijgen kan beginnen heb ik nog maar 20 Bar open.
Op een of andere manier wil het niet meer lukken en ga ik samen met 1 Divemaster omhoog en schiet door de Safty-stop heen. Maar goed ook, ik heb no 0 Bar in de fles.
De overige groepsleden komen ook per 2 boven iedere groep op meer dan 50 meter van elkaar af.
Niet wat je noemt het schoolvoorbeeld van een goede duik.
Na een uur boven water volgt de 2e duik op "Tortuga".
Deze duik is in een aanzienlijk rustiger water en max 12 meter diep.
Een heerlijk ontspannen duik met de nodige vis.
Pufferfish, Wit punt Rif Haai, trompetvissen Leopard Ray's en nog veel meer.
Na een klein uurtje weer terug op de boot en daarna weer naar de kant.
Afspraken maken voor morgen omdat we naar de locatie gaan waar mogelijk Manta's zijn.
Daarna lunchen en verder een rustige dag. We hebben zo inspanning genoeg gehad voor vandaag.
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As I wrote in my last report, I went to the Osa peninsula on the Southwest Pacific Coast after coming back from Curacao. I spent 3 weeks working with Osa Conservation. Most projects I stayed 4 weeks but this one was more expensive. They told me that it was because the area is very popular for tourists and people who want to work with them. The reason it is so popular is because it’s known as the most biodiverse part of (the already very biodiverse) Costa Rica. Osa Conservation is right next to Corcovado, the biggest National Park of Costa Rica. Therefore it recieves many reseachers and interns from both North- and South America as well as from Europe. During my time there I figured that it’s indeed a special and biodiverse place. One of the interns was studying a complete new termite species they discovered recently. Other people had been building different types of arboreal bridges to find out what sort of animals would use them and which structures and kind of material is more preferred by them. Unfortunately many researchers were away during the Christmas holidays, so I couldn’t participate in their fieldwork. Luckily there was also a seaturtle project and the seaturtle team had to patrol the beach every night for green turtles and olive ripley turtles that would nest at the beach. In contrary to my project in October, here there’s no pouching for the eggs, but there are racoons and coatis that would still predate the nests. The beach area we had to patrol was much smaller, so it was no so exhausting as at Playa Hermosa in October.
It was also the time for the baby turtles to hatch, so during patrol we also had to check the nests in the hatchery so see where turtles started to come to the surface. Many times only a few from the nest would be already at the surface, others would be crawling upwards or still be asleep and only be at the surface next morning. Therefore we also had to go to the hatchery every morning to release those ones. (Luckily the turtle team was big enough so we as volunteers only had to go a few times a week). Though the first time I released the baby turtles was very special and beautiful, actually every time we released them was a beautiful moment, hoping that enough of them will survive their fragile babytime and live long enough to become adults.
There were two species of sea turtles nesting on the beach, the green turtle and olive ridley turtle and it was interesting to see the difference between both species. The baby green turtles are bigger and also much more awake once they are hatching. On the video you can see that the moment we release them at the beach, the green turtle babies go much faster than the other ones.
Next to seeing all these turtles, I indeed saw many other animals and can admit that the chance to see animals is higher than anywhere else in this country. At our place we had spider monkeys passing by almost every day and every morning around 4.00am we heard the howler monkeys waking up. (compared to them, a roaster is a really silent animal). Scarlet macaws and parrots flew over every day and toucans could be heard (and seen if you know where to look for them) frequently. The project had a lot of trails through mainly primary forests where I saw my first squirrel monkeys in the wild. Primary forest means that the forest is original and tropical trees had all changes to grow, so next to animals I was really impressed by the size and height of some of the trees.
A high biodiversity and chance to encounter animals also has a backside though. On the trails, that were full of leaves that fall off during the dry season, the chance to have snakes hidden under it is much higher. Knowing that, definitely made it more adventurous all the times we went out on the trails, especially when I went on my own. And we did see several snakes while walking, sometimes sleeping next to a tree, other times moving next to the paths or even on the roof of the dinner area on the campus. One time though when I was looking for animals with two other volunteers, although looking around all the time, one of the other volunteers accidently did step on a poisonous baby fer-de-lance snake. Luckily it didn’t get offended and just moved towards a tree the moment it got free from the human shoe.
In the end there was just one animal that I started disliking, being a big male coati, who came in our dorm rooms almost every day. In the beginning I had some energybars there, locked in a box, but coatis turn out to be better than racoons in opening bags, zips and boxes. Removing all food to the central kitchen (the only place that could be really locked off for animals) didn’t help; next day it went for my teabags and even opened the bag with silica sachets. After putting these away, he didn’t do any more damage to my stuff. (although he still might have come in the next day). But the next week, I had a banana in my bag hanging on my bed during the night. Coatis are diurnal and still a bit afraid of humans, so it should be fine to have it there only during one night. Well, this coati didn’t know that it was not noctural and came back that night while I was sleeping, trying to steal my banana. After chasing him off, that morning I checked my bags again to be sure there was really no fool or anything interesting left. That day he got so frustrated when checking my room that he started eating my toiletpaper. Some animals really don’t know when to stop annoying people. On the other hand, some interns at the project told me they had snakes under their house, so things can always be more unpleasant.
Looking back I can say that, although I had to pay a lot of money and couldn’t join most of the wildlife programs, I absolutely liked my time there and the 3 meals we got prepared every day with lots of salade and vegetables were very good and professional.
After my stay at Osa Conservation I spend a little week on the other side of the peninsula as a tourist, where I did some snorkeling, hiking and swimming in a little desolate river, hoping to see some rare animals like tapirs and pumas. I saw some tracks but didn’t get the luck to see them live.
Last week I started my last project here in Costa Rica, on a place in the mountains where it’s much cooler. But I’ll tell you about that next time.
I wish you all some warmth, knowing that it’s really winter there. Hold on, when I’m back in a month, I will bring some sunshine.
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No, don’t worry, I am not going to write this report in Spanish.
It’s been a while again since my last update. The last month I didn’t have a lot of time to write, which means I at least didn’t get bored. But now it’s time to get you all updated about what’s been going on in December.
After 3 weeks of working at the Rescate visitor center, as I described in the previous blog, I moved to another part of the country where the rescued animals will be released if possible. Because Rescate eventually tries to release as much animals as possible back into the wild. A 5 hour drive brought me to the Nicoya peninsula, where Rescate has bought some forest area in a quite deserted place. Every two weeks a truck arrives there from the rescue center, bringing food and other supplies and often animals than can be released. Most animals that arrive there are yellow naped amazones and spider monkeys, but also turtles, great currasows and incidently others like possums. I was really looking forward to start volunteering there, and finally be able to release animals back into the wild.
Some animals like turtles and possums can be released directly into the forest when they arrive. Some only need a few days to acclimatise before they are released. The monkeys and most birds that arrive there though, first need to be kept in big cages for several weeks. There they can relax from the transportation and the probable stress while being in the rescue center. Also they need to get used to the new surrounding, type of food and especially, the other animals of their species that are in and around the cage. While they are in their cage, we monitor them to see how they behave and react on each other and on humans.
Many parrots have to learn to fly again after having been in a cage as a pet for many years. Also they have to learn vocalizing as a bird again in stead of imitating human sounds like songs or crying babies. Monkeys especially need to learn behaving amongst other monkeys in a group and more important not being close to humans any more. So during the monitoring we try to see which animals show more natural behaviour, can move around normally and thus have a serious chance of surviving once released.
During my stay we released several yellow naped parrots. Catching them from within the cage was an interesting activity. First we ‘chased’ them with a long pole so they would fly up and down the cage and get tired after a while. When they are tired the stop flying high up and end on the ground, where they are easier to catch. Easier does not mean easy. Once on the ground they defend themselves with trying to bite you and put their claws and nails on you. The claws are okay, but their beaks and incredibly sharp and strong, so we had to wear thick leather gloves and try to catch them from their neck so they can’t reach with their beak anymore. The first time I tried to catch one, I was afraid of hurting them, but soon I figured out that they are not that fragile and you actually need to hold them firmly otherwise they’ll still manage to bite you.
Luckily I never got biten seriously and soon enough learnt how to catch and hold them. Once held firmly, we did some measurements and then brought them outside the cage. There they are put on the fence, where some of them climb up slowly to be close to their peer inside the cage and need some time before they fly off. Others can’t wait to be free and fly away the moment they are released.
Our responsibility didn’t stop there. Since the forest area where the release takes place is not enormous and the managers still don’t know how much food can be found there in the wild, every morning we bring food into the feeders that are around the cages and in the forest and then observe which and how many of the animals come to feed on them. During the time I was there, we always saw several animals that were released recently or in the previous years but also unknown ones that have probably been born in the wild as offspring from the released animals. (When they started the project, there weren’t much wild animals left in the area). So the rewilding is really working out.
In fact, some animals got so succesful that they were starting to be annoying sometimes. On the birdfeeders there were often great currasows and crested guans hanging around, trying to get the food that was meant for the macaws and parrots. On the monkey feeders, there were often big groups of coati invading the whole area so the monkeys got scared away. During my stay here I started to get more annoyed by the coatis, although they still look cute.
After the 2 weeks I spent here, I really learned a lot about the complicated process of releasing animals that have been captured for a long time or never learn foraging from their parents.
By this time I had been in Costa Rica for 3,5 months and I gave myself a small holiday. I went to Bonaire and Curacoa for a week, mainly to do some diving and snorkeling, but also to see how old dutch colonies look like nowadays.
The flights there and back were a little exciting because the islands lay only 60km from Venezuela. Luckily no flights were bombed during these days so I survived.
The coast of both Islands is really beautiful and tropical and it was beautiful to see many fish and also some seaturtles while I was in the water. Even though the coral in many places looked quite depressive and desolated.
Apart from nature I also liked the laid back ambience and friendly Antillian people there. I never new which language to speak with them because the all speak some Dutch, English and Spanish but among themselves mostly speak Papiamento. And that’s the only one I can’t speak[e-1f61c]
I also didn’t realise these islands are very touristic. The central harbor of Willemstad received between 2 and 5 cruise ships daily and also many Dutch people go there for holidays, living or temporal jobs. And though they all come to enjoy the beauty of nature, most of them didn’t give me the impression of being really close to nature. I had a great holiday week there, but I am glad to be back in Costa Rica at my new project on the Osa Peninsula, where people really seem to care about our beautiful planet.
Next time I hope to tell you about this project here. I wish you all a great start of the new year and hope 2026 will be the year where people finally stop being capitalist and get attached to nature again. Salud!
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After a quite depressing report last month, this one I guess will be more fun to read.
Since two weeks I have been working at the Rescate animal rescue centre in Alajuela, close to San Jose.
The rescue centre receives more then 3000 animals every year. Animals that are found in the wild, got injured, or were (illegally) kept as a pet before. All animals that arrive will be checked by a veterinarian for injuries, weaknesses and mental behavior. The goal is to prepare the animals to get back in the wild. Unfortunately, several animals have been to close to humans or didn’t learn from their parents how to survive, and therefore are kept in the rescue centre. Most of them can be watched by visitors, like in a regular zoo. Several animals get to stressed in contact with humans and need to be kept out of sight.
As a volunteer, we work mainly for the animals that can be watch in the visitor area of the rescue centre. Before I go into details about the work I do here, I want to inform you why so many animals arrive here every year.
Costa Rica is a country full of wild animals. Many local people will see them when they go into the forest or nature. When they see a young bird or mammal without it’s parents, they believe it’s left alone or it’s parents have died. This might be the case but often, parents just went hunting for food, or a young bird felt from the nest on the ground. The parents are still taking care of their children, as would humans do when their kid is left alone for a short time. If people take this animal out of it’s natural place, it often isn’t fit yet to survive by it’s own. If the animal is brought to the rescue centre inmediately, it still has a chance to adapt to it’s wildlife together with other animals of the same species. If people try to feed and raise it by themselves, it’s impossible to get it back into the wild.
Some people just like to have a wild animal as a pet. Wild animal trading is the 3th biggest illegal business in the world, after weapons and drugs. When the police or other governmental agency finds such pet, it will be confiscated and brought here. These animals never will be able to go back into the wild. They are to focused on humans, often had an unappropriate diet and have no idea how to get food in the wild.
Sometimes people find injured animals, for example because of electric wire, regular fences, entangled by human waste or being hit by a vehicle.
Another possibility is that an young animal is orphaned because it’s parents died, often being hunt. If the orphaned animal is old enough, it still has a good chance to survive in the wild when it’s brought in inmediately after being found.
Honestly, when I learned about all the reasons for animals brought into here, I was impressed realising that they manage to get most of these animals back into the wild. Within one week i will go to another part of the country, where these animals are prepared for release into their own nature. That must be a beautiful experience I imagine.
In the meantime here in the rescue centre we try to make live of the enclosed animals a little less boring. The enclosures where they live are furnitured with trees, leaves, branches, water, or whatever looks like their natural surrounding. But it’s still an enclosure, it’s small and the scenery never changes. Their food is normally served directly on a plate so there’s no real challenge for them. Our goal is to give them a little challenge and excitement (called an enrichment) once per week. How?
Every Monday we start thinking about the enrichment we want to give to each of these animals. The enrichment can be sensorial, food, environmental, cognitive and/or social. The idea is to vary the type and form of enrichment every week, to use food, materials, constructions that immitate the natural behaviour and prevent possible dangers in the construction or diet. When we construct the enrichment, we can not use wire, long pieces of rope, (they might get entangled or injured), food with to much fat, sweetness or calories (we don’t want obese animals). As we have to make enrichments for many animals, we can not spend to much time on the preparation (the animal should spend as least as much time using the enrichment as we spend on making it).
Apart from natural behavior we also have to think about the social behavior of the individuals that are in the enclosures. Some animals don’t like to share, or there’s a clear hierarchy in the group. To be sure that all animals in the enclosure get the chance to enjoy the enrichment, we need to make enough of them.
So what kind of enrichments have we been making these weeks?
For example, last week I was making some leave and meat balls for the jaguars. Starting with a little bowl of hay, you enwrap that with a big leave, put a little piece of meat, enwrap with another leave and continue up to 5 layers of leaves with small pieces of meat. Everything is tied together with a string of leave or vine branch. Luckily the climate in this country creates an abundance of fast growing plants like palm leaves, banana leaves and mainly grass leaves, that can also be used as strings by tearing them apart.
Another enrichment is a coconut in which we drilled some holes and filled these up with hay. Between the hay we put some mealworms, little pieces of fruit, spiders or pieces of egg or meat.
This week I was thinking of an appropriate enrichment for the coatis (the type of nosebears I first met in Monteverde cloud forest). Coatis use their nose to scan and dig the floor for insects, seeds or berries, so I wanted to make something where they have to do something similar. Together will one of our assistants we came up with the idea of making some leave racks in which we put some raisins, so they really have to work to find them.
Sometimes to enrichment can be really easy, like spreading some perfume around, or distribute a bucket of camomile enflavoured water through the enclosure.
After putting the enrichment in the enclosure (or throw it in, if we can not go in) we always watch the behaviour of the animals to see if they like the enrichment. Fortunately, in the last two weeks, most animals reacted positive on the enrichments. So although the spend their live locked up in a big cage, at least here they have something every week to look forward to. For us it’s nice to be able to do this for them. And of course it’s also nice to learn about the backstage work of animal centres. One time we had to clean a snake enclosure, while the snake was still inside. The assistant manager of course knew how to handle, but the snake got a bit to curious about what we came in for, so we had to leave it’s house and wait for anothe opportunity when it would be easier to get it.
Well, that’s it for now. I’ll try to share some photo’s and video’s about the enrichments and animal behaviour, but for most examples, you just have to wait untill I’m back and can show you all the rest.
Enjoy the cold autumn, here on the mainland the dry season is slowly starting.
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I hope you have all finishing reading the previous report from last week. (If not, first read that one and next time try to keep up!!)
Well, as promised, today I’ll write you about the reality behind saving turtles. Like every volunteer and tourist, I arrived here last week, hoping to see some turtles laying their eggs at the beach, helping to collect a lot of turtle eggs and especially help getting the new born turtle babies get into the sea safely. Unfortunately there are a lot of misunderstandings behind the process and there’s a lot of boring and exhausting work behind that idyllic picture.
Sea turtles put their eggs always at night, preferably at high tide. This means that saving the nests is always happening at a time I really should be sleeping, anywhere between 10pm and 05am. Some patrols only last a few hours but a week ago I had several night patrols lasting from 01am until 06am. While walking along the beach, it’s not allowed to put a white light as that will distract the turtles. During my first patrol I discovered that my red light is not very bright so I actually couldn’t see a lot. Luckily after a few times I got used to the poor sight and could start distinguishing the wood logs and branches from the sand on the beach, and also the slightly different sand colour where a turtle had been walking. Whenever we found such a trail, we followed it slowly inland; on a few occasions we saw the turtle actually being busy making her nest or putting the eggs. The first time I saw that, was very special and emotional. Also impressive because an average turtle nest contains between 80 and 100 eggs!
Most of the times there was no turtle anymore, which can indicate several options; in the most positive scenario the turtle has finished her nest, got back into the ocean and the nest is still intact. Often though there was no nest, probably because the turtle got disturbed by some animal, movement or white light from a car or house and just went back into the ocean. The third and worst case posibility though is that there was a nest but the nest is destroyed. At night there are a lot of racoons (attracked by the food people leave near their house or on the beach) and other predator animals (like house dogs walking free on these protected areas of the beach). And there are many poachers here in Costa Rica who steal the eggs from the nests and sell them.
Turtles eggs have been a delicacy in these countries for many years and although now it is officially illegal to collect and sell the eggs, many poor people still keep on doing it. And many people believe there’s some afrodisiacum or longevity supporting substance in the eggs, so they will still eat it.
So there are many reasons while these turtle nests need protection from getting destroyed. And walking at night at the beach is not without danger. There are several small rivers ending at the beach and after a heavy rainfall, there might be soms crocodiles hanging around there, waiting for soms fish, small animals or a nice human leg they can feed on.
Next to the poachers trying to steal the eggs, there’s also the posibility of drugscartels hanging around at the beach and you don’t want to get too close to them. That’s why on some parts of the beach we can also go in company of National Park security Rangers or Police Coastguards.
When we do find an intact turtle nest, we preferably dig up the nest so we can transfer the eggs to the hatchery where it’s suppost to be safe from humans and animals. The eggs are soft shelled and very fragile which means that you can only touch them very gentle with alcohol cleaned hands (and the alcohol has to be evaporated and washed off with clean beach sand). The eggs need to be transported in soft bags that are free of chemicals or micro-organisms. The bags can get heavy after walking with them for a while but may only be put down once you are at the hatchery or in specific cases also on clean sand from the intermareal area (area between low and high tide).
The hatchery used to be just a place on the beach close to where we stay, marked by bamboo sticks and patrolled by anyone around to make sure no one enters the hatchery. New research has changed to rules for hatcheries though. Bamboo wood is not strong enough and might contains micro-organisms like fungi after being used for several months. Ants and other insects can also infect the eggs, so the hatchery must have special protection tissues that avoid insects from getting in. The sand used in the hatchery must be free of stones, roots, insects etc. The hatchery must be built away from artificial light and be protected from real high tides coming in and transporting wood and human-made debris towards it. It also has to be close to the place where most turtles nest. All these new requirements meant that the new hatchery had to be build away from the refuge where we stay and close to a habitated suburb of the drugstown Jaco. For us to get there, means driving for almost 40 minutes, of which 20 minutes crossing 3 km of dirt road in very bad conditions. (the road is not owned by the government and the people owning the road and the houses along it don’t want to get it fixed). The shorter way would be walking along the beach but there’s a big river in between full of crocodiles so that’s not a safe option.
Once the first eggs are buried in that hatchery, there must be 24/7 guarding to avoid animals and humans trying to get it. Officially the foundation has local volunteers living close, who take that responsibility. In practice, many of these volunteers cancel their shift all of a sudden, or don’t really do their job and just hang around at the beach. A week ago, when we entered the hatcherry at night, ready to bury soms fresh eggs, we discovered a racoon had just come in and destroyed a whole nest (luckily only one, because in 30 minutes it could have destroyed all the nests that were inside).
Last week there were hardly any local volunteers to guard the hatchery, so we as international volunteers had to be there in shifts the whole week. We were supposted to do the shifts by 2 people, but some volunteers got a bit sick so eventually it turned out I had to do most shifts by myself. Especially during the night shifts (it’s dark here between 5pm and 5am) it’s a hard and boring job. There is very bad internet reception, there’s no toilet, electricity or running water there. We have to be outsite, close to the hatchery and checking for animals every few minutes. On one of these nightshifts I saw 4 racoon and 1 possum within 2 hours, so at least my presence was usefull that night. Also at any time during day and night. There will arrive so people by car or foot. The beach near the hatchery and parking area are closed to public, but as some people use the isolated place to sell drugs, it recommended to not talk to them but just call the police. (which is difficult if you have no phone reception and the police would come anyway, while they have bigger drugsproblems to solve at nights).
During the day shifts we had another challenge. The edges of the hatchery are protected and stabilised with sand bags, plastic bags filled with beach sand. Unfortunately on one side of the hatchery, all of a sudden many of these bags got torn open. Probably some person walked over the bags, which shouldn’t be a problem normally, but the plastic appeared to be completely deteriorated and was falling apart completely. As the sand in the hatchery has to be completely free of plastic, this means we have to get all these plastic particles out of there. There is no money to rent a shovel and just remove all the contaminated sand (and what can you do with all that sand; you don’t want the plastic particles getting into the ocean or somewhere in nature!)
So I have been trying several ways to get the least amount of contaminated sand;
-mixing the sand with seawater didn’t work, half of the plastic didn’t float
-putting the sand through a big metal sieve didn’t work, the plastic broke down into even small pieces and went through.
-using a kitchen sieve gave some positive results, I could separate more plastic but not the smaller parts (of which the ocean is completely filled up these days)
-using a linen bag after that made me get most of the plastic out, but still not everything.
Knowing this, now I have to start cleaning the sand that I separated already (about 10% of the whole area). That will take a few days so I probably won’t be able to finish it, as this week is my last week at the turtle project.
As you might start to understand, protecting turtles requires a lot more than just going to the beach and release some turtle hatchlings. Still this is what most tourists see and do when they come to Costa Rica during hatchling season. Many people here collect turtle eggs by them self, put them in the ground at the beach in front of their house or company, wait 50 days for the turtles to hatch and them let people pay a lot of money so they can come to the beacht at daylight and each hold one babyturtle which they can put at the sea ridge. The chance of these turtles to survive is almost zero! Why?
-The eggs in these nests are buried with bare hands without taking protection so the eggs are contaminated and many of the eggs won’t develop properly.
-Baby turtles always hatch at night, and than need some time to orientate themselves so they know where they are and can come back years later to lay their own eggs. They use the time to digest the last food left in the egg and gain the strength to go towards the sea.
-Waiting to release them until the tourists arrive causes them to get desorientated by the daylight, not having enough strenght anymore to survive the first day in the sea, having many birds and reptiles around that can eat them the moment they get into the sea.
-Putting the turtles directly at sea ridge means they miss the time to orientate so they can come back later to lay their eggs.
-You really mix up natural selection. A nest of 100 eggs normally means around 80 turtles coming out alive. Some of them are blind or otherwise physically injured and won’t make it to the sea. These are the ones that predators normally take so the healthy ones get more change to survive.
-Last but not least, the babies are very vulnerable and direct contact with human hands or other unnatural substances will harm them.
As you see, I learned a lot these weeks about what’s right and wrong when trying to save turtles and the necessary work requires a lot of boring night work, ruined biorhythm, continuously changing plans caused by heavy weather and failing volunteers and living a primitive life because there’s no money to do things the easy or efficient way. And after all my work, I haven’t seen one baby turtle yet (all the problems above meant we only started the actual burying of the eggs in the hatchery 2 weeks ago). I am happy I could do my part and helping this small not profit foundation, I have learned a lot but it’s been some though weeks.
In one week I will start my next project at Rescate Animal rescue centre. That’s gonna be a whole new and different experience again, but for sure, not so much nightwork and much more actually working with the animals themselves.
I realise this report has been more serious than the previous ones, but yeah, that’s life sometimes. Have a great time and I’ll be back in a few weeks.
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[message] => Hi, it’s me again[e-1f590]
While everyone in the Netherlands is busy with the upcoming elections [e-1f534] next Wednesday, I am living a more primitive [e-26c8]life at the Pacific, trying to safe as much turtle eggs [e-1f422][e-1f423]as possible.
After behaving like a ostrich for half a year, not wanting to follow the daily news anymore, last week I opened up my NOS app again, curious about how the political campaign was developing. I secretly hoped that people would finally realise that Climate Change [e-1f30a] and Nature degeneration [e-1f334] really is something we all should be worried about. I noticed they’re not[e-1f629]. I still hope for a positive result[e-2705] after Wednesday but in the meantime I feel even more encouraged to keep on doing my best to safe the last bits of nature we have left, giving up a lot of night sleep [e-1f635] to get that done.
But before I’ll tell you all about what it means to save turtles and their eggs, I should start where I finished 3 weeks ago; the Monteverde CloudForest[e-2601][e-1f333].
Monteverde literally means ‘green mountain[e-26f0]’ and is called so because it’s a rainforest area on a elevation of about 1500-1800m a.s.l. For that reason, the rainforest and area are often hidden in the clouds[e-1f32b], giving it a slightly different habitat and therefore called cloudforest. During the 4 days I stayed there, I visited different parts of the forest area. Next to the several species of monkeys[e-1f435][e-1f412] I had seen already at the Carribean Coast, I met a whole family of Coati (a kind of nose bear[e-1f43c]) sniffing around among the trees right next to the path, some funny looking, rather shy agoutis [e-1f43f](a kind of rodent) and also some beautiful birds [e-1f54a] with colourful long tail feathers.
After walking through the parks for 2 days, the third day I did it the way Monteverde is most famous for; getting around at canopy level. Most tourists like to do it by zipline, crossing the canopy by distances up to 1000m in just a minute, but in that way you don’t really see animals. The other way is by crossing over hanging bridges, so you can actually see the trees from the top and also the birds (and some monkeys) that enjoy the fruits and seeds high up the trees.
Because of low season, I was one of the very few tourists at that day taking the hanging bridges, so I could take my time. After 2 hours going slower than a sloth I had crossed the whole trail, went for a coffee[e-2615] and wanted to go around once more. The ticket unfortunately was valet for one entry only, but after talking for 10 minutes with the guards, they let me get in for a second time [e-1f600]
Although I enjoyed the scenery [e-1f3de] of the parks and the lower temperature in the mountain these days, the entry fees of at least $25 for each park is much higher than it should be. (The Cahuita national Park I was the week before only asked for a suggested $5-$10 donation). Fortunately there is a really mystical nice place, free of charge and only 10 minutes walking from the village centre. I only had to walk down a small path towards a little river, completely hidden by the clouds, where I found a very unique tree formation. The tree itself, standing on the edge above the river, has grown it’s roots so well, that it crosses the river both from above throught the air as well as all the way down to and through the river below, creating a magnific Lord of the Rings scenery. Although free of charge and so close to the centre of the village, the two times I went there, I was the only one around. What else do you need to forget about your problems [e-262f] and enjoy live at the very moment[e-1f607]
After these 4 days I left the mountains to get in a more touristic place, next to the Arenal Volcano [e-1f5fb]. Getting there from Monteverde we had to cross an artificial lake (a hydro-electric reservoir) where we had a beautiful close view on the cone shaped volcanic mountain. Also from the town/touristic hub accomodating all visitors, you felt like the volcano was right next to you, giving beautiful views during day and night.
Many wealthy people book a big room in one of the newly build 5star hotels, which provide ‘natural’ hot pools to swim [e-1f3ca]. Luckily I met some locals who informed me where to get to the real hot water from the volcano free of charge. The host from my hostel advised me to go after dark, when it’s less crowded and air temperature much nicer and invited me and the other hostel guests to go together that evening. For 2 hours we enjoyed the natural pool and sounds of frogs [e-1f438] and running water, lighted by only some candlelights[e-1f56f] (and made me miss having Welmoed there with me[e-2764]).
Next day was the last day of my trip before I had to go back to San Jose and get to my next project and I decided to walk a trail getting to the bottom of the last Lava flow of 1968 [e-1f30b] which gave an even better view on the mountain cone. Getting there I crossed some forest again, where I saw several new bird species, like a big kind of tree turkey [e-1f983].
After getting back in town, I treated myself on a nice vegetarian casada (a local food plate [e-1f37d] with lots of vegetables[e-1f33d][e-1f345][e-1f346], salad, beans and tortillas[e-1f32e]).
These 2 weeks of holiday in between my voluntary projects have been really nice, giving me the opportunity to get a wider impression of the nature and people of this beautiful but also poor and ‘not so safe as they tell in the brochures[e-1f4d7]’ country.
Time to start saving turtles, as you’ll read in my next report[e-1f4f0], coming up soon [e-1f551] …..
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[message] => Welcome back dear followers. It’s time for a new update. I am writing this report while sitting in a real backpackers hostel in San Jose. Although I’ve been in this country for almost 1,5 months now, it’s actually my first day in the Capital. As I might remember, the day I arrived here I went inmediately towards the ‘study the rainforest’ project. And Ididn’t regret it, because San Jose is just a big city with a lot of poverty and not much to see or do apart from shopping for clothes or terrible plastic toys. So there hardly any tourists here and apart from the centre parts it’s not recommended to walk around anyway.
But okay, let’s start where I finished my last report. A week before I finished at the rainforest project, two new students from the Netherlands arrived, which made my very happy because one of them brought my new phone (which I ordered in the NLs to safe a lot of money). So from that day on I could make really nice photo’s again (which was honestly the main reason to buy that phone). During my last weekend there, we went on a boat trip through one of the rivers here, watching wildlife from the water. That day my phone proved already that it was worth the investment. We saw a lot of birds, iguanas, some monkeys and even a sloth (If you do a tour without seeing at least one, it’s really bad luck). Although some birds were to far away to get a nice photo of them, I at least got some nice photo’s of some of them as well as some monkeys.
This boat trip also was a sort of starting my touristy time here. In the reserve and compound where we worked and lived we saw many frogs, spiders, butterflies, some birds and eventually some snakes (the last night there we found a small cute coffee snake on the path to the accomodation that liked to go around my wrist like a bracelet), so seeing some monkeys, iguanas and waterbirds was something new for me here.
My first destination while travelling by myself was the less touristic little town of Cahuita, which is especially known for snorkeling. The day I arrived there I found out that i could just get into the water from my hostel and see nice fish, although the reef and coral life was not very brilliant. Next day I went snorkeling close to the national park shore. Go snorkeling there is only allowed with a guide and on a tour which of course means paying a lot of money. I didn’t find that, looking forward to see a more vivid reef and dito marine animals. Unfortunately the reef wasn’t really more colourful, although we did see some reef sharks, manta rays and lion fish so it was still nice. After the snorkeling we walked back through the national park with the guide and again saw some snakes, lizards, 3 sweatwater turtles and again a sloth (though far away and always hard to spot as they appear big termite bowls or knobs in the tree).
The next day I went back into the park by myself. In the beginning local guides told me to take a guide, otherwise I wouldn’t see much. Well, they were wrong. I first saw a family of racoons playing around like dogs. A little bit later I saw some families of capuchin monkeys, with one of them getting pretty close so I decided to step back in case he wanted to take my camera, which he didn’t do. A little bit later when I was halfway the trail at a small picknick area I wanted to take a snack. All of a sudden a capuchin monkey came running towards my bag. I tried to safe by bag with nuts from him stealing it, but the guy was smart enough to just go into my backpack and going to steal my bag of dried fruits. Although they are really small, they have sharp teeth and I didn’t want to fight with him so let him take the bag and run off into a tree (and actually I was also a bit shocked for a short moment by what he did). I was most worried about him eating the plastic of getting sick by eating to much fruits in one time but of course monkeys are smart enough to just rip open a bag and probably also know when to stop eating. Anyway I wasn’t waiting for him to finish the bag and throw it down from the trees, so continued walking for another ten minutes until I felt safe enough to sit down and have my own snack.
At the end of the trail I even saw a nosebear, which was really the first time in my life to see that in the wild; so it was a really interesting and educational walk that day, without needing a guide.
Next day I had to get up early to catch a boat taking me all the way from Limon to Tortuguero through the cannels and rivers near the Carribean see. Although we went really fast, it took more than 3,5 hours on the boat. Tortuguero is surrounded by cannels so the only way to get there is by boat (or airplane if you’re really rich and lazy). Tortuguero is about the only place on the Carribean coast where you can watch sea turtles come ashore to lay eggs and next to Puerto Viejo therefore the only real touristic place on the Carribean Coast. I think I was the only tourist there NOT going to see the turtles. The tour is $35 and I’ll be working with sea turtles for a whole month soon. I did book a early morning canoe tour to get around throught to canals; although the wildlife is about the same as at the Pacuare river, by canoe we could even get much closer to the animals without chasing them away. Now I could picture all those herons and cormorants from really close and even see a young alligator waiting for one of us putting his hand in the water. the most impressed I was though by a strange bird, which could turn it’s wings inside out while drying them in the wind, making it look like a real Buddhist bird.(see the photo to see what I mean).
Later that morning I made a hike in the tortuguero national park while I saw a lot of cute little lizards (mainly the whiptail lizards) and also a lot of spider monkeys. They are also funny to look at and don’t get so easily aggressive to humans).
The next most special thing to do in Tortuguero is walking up a vulcanic hill. To get there I had to take another boat (it started to look a bit like Venice, taking boats to get anywhere). Getting to the top of the hill meant going up about 500 stairs but it was really nice to have a view on the canals and the coastline after having been there for more than a day.
After that full day of watching nature, today I made it back to San Jose as I wrote above, but only to get an early morning bus to Monteverde tomorrow. That is part of the cloud forest of Costa Rica, which means it’s higher up in the mountains, so hopefully it’s cooler there. For sure there’s even more propability to get rain there, so let’s see what that means in real life. I’ll let you know next time.
Let’s end with the same request as last time. I also like to know about all of your lifes, so if you have time, make me happy and write something by whatsapp, email or just replying on this blog.
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It has been quiet here for the last 2 weeks. That doesn’t mean nothing happened here but a lot of things I described in my previous blog, quickly became normal. After a few days I got used to the humidity and feeling a bit sweaty all the time. Also the pinto (the rice and beans) has become normal and as it’s a healthy meal, I even appreciate it now as a start of the day.
Also hearing the sound of the toucans, seeing gecko’s, butterflies and hummingbirds all around me, had become normal (although I still haven’t managed to take a photo of a hummingbird drinking from a flower). And I also still enjoy seeing the leave frogs near the pools at night, as well as the strawberry poison frogs (officially called the dendrobates pomilio). Last Friday we walked a particular part of the reserve (called a transect) to cound all amphibians and reptiles we see on that part (this is done weekly to collect data about the differences in presence/absence of different species in the different areas during the years). On that particular morning we saw 55 of these strawberry frogs in a time period of about 1,5 hours!
Another reason I haven’t been reporting these weeks is because my phone almost died caused by the humidity and heath. One morning after I made a phonecall, al of a sudden the screen didn’t work anymore, so I couldn’t see anything on the phone. Keeping it in the only AC cooled room in the whole compound for a day and night didn’t really work. Luckily one moment the light came back a bit and I could put the screenlight on almost maximum. Since then I can use it again, but making clear photo’s became more difficult and sometimes the light still disappears, so I decided to buy a new phone. Our costarican colleague told me that cellphones in Costa Rica are extremely expensive because of the import tax. He was right; the phone I decided to buy would cost me €1300 here, in NL it would only be around €900. Luckily next weekend a new student will arrive here from the Netherlands, so I ordered my phone there and she will bring it to me. How nice!
Apart from looking for a new phone, I’ve also been busy planning my mini holiday for the first 2 weeks of October. Between the projects I’m working now and the next one (the Corcovado turtle conservation) I have two weeks to travel around. There’s plenty of public transport but it is difficult to find bus schedules online and buses frequently arrive later at their destination than scheduled because of traffic jams or road construction detours. Renting a car by myself is too expensive so I do rely on the public buses.
Also I am planning the second part of my sabbitical, when I come back here after Christmas.
In the meantime I have been planting some trees along the trail through the small forest we have here on the compound and also started to put the information signs about the different animals and plants that are likely to be found and seen here on the compound and in the reserve.
Last but not least I was asked to make a nice sign to mark the end of one of the transects I’ve been writing about above, so I even had to put in practice my Waldorf creativity of the last years.
It might look like I have been stuck here in the wild for weeks. Luckily we do leave this area sometimes during the weekend. Last weekend we went to a much more touristic place at the beach, called Puerto Viejo. Although it’s only about 100km from here, it took us 3 hours to get there, taking two different buses and waiting on the bus station for an hour between both of them.
It was an experience to suddenly see more ‘gringos’ (officially the name for people from the US but used for any western tourist), because here in the village we are the only ones. With the tourists come all the restaurants serving western food, the people selling all touristy stuff, but more important, the nice vivent ambience with music played from the different bars and restaurants. Swimming in the sea is different from the Netherlands. The waves are much bigger but the current also much stronger, so we could only swim in a small area and close to the shore to be safe (which I did, because I promised Welmoed not to drown during my stay here). I even rented a surfboard for an hour to try and catch some waves (I took a few lessons 10 years ago in Sydney). I realised again how difficult and straining it is to learn surfing, though I did enjoy it in the meantime.
Well, now you are up-to-date again. I like it when you leave some comments so I know people read my newspapers and appreciate them [e-1f60a]
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After I arrived at the project location in the nature just outside a small village called San Miguel, I had a small dinner of rice and beans and than made a short nightwalk around the compound with the other students. First thing you learn is that whenever you go off the paved paths you have to wear boots and a light if it’s dark. There can always be a snake, scorpion or something else on your way that will bite or sting you. On the small walk we did there were several frogs, (like the poisonous strawberry frog), spiders and even a small snake eating all the eggs from a frog (see the photo on my previous blog).
After this nice first meeting with wildlife I finally could have a great sleep. Because of the little jetlag, the neverending jungle sounds and the high humidity I still woke up very early. After breakfast I was supposed to have an easy going start up on the compound, but one of the students wasn’t able to join the work in the reserve so all of a sudden I found myself going into the wild jungle.
What we had to do that day is set out the edges of a plot of 50x50 meters in a part of the 10 km2 reserve area. After walking for about 30 minutes in a very uneven and slippery terrain we could start setting out the plot. The first part of it is just walking perfectly north, trying to make a small 1m wide path of 50meters long, which means cutting away all leaves and branches in that strip while trying to not remove any more than necessary. Once it’s cleared, you put a pole on every 10 meter distance to indicate the borde your making. This is very important because the plants will grow back very fast so by this way at least you can later recognise the border of the plot you made. After the first edge is finished, you make the other 3 edges of 50meter each.
Well, this all sounds funny and easy in theory, but as the surface is very uneven, slippery and somethings there’s a hole or a big tree in your way, in reality it takes a lot of time to find a square that’s possible to set out. And of course when we were halfway our first edge, it started to rain. It took 5 minutes for the rain to reach the ground passing the full canopy, but as it rained for more than an hour we got completely soaked. Putting a raincoat wouldn’t help because it’s still hot and humid, so a raincoast would make you even more wet and sweaty.
After we finished our first 50meters of the plot, we had our lunch in the rain. Lunch was mainly rice and beans again, and some left over salad from the day before. After lunch we dediced to go back to the compound, as it had just become to slippery to continue. At the farm I took a nice cold shower, but 5 minutes later I was sweating again. Being in the rainforest means getting used to the heath and humidity. And also to the rice and beans (called pincho in Costa Rica) because that’s what they normally eat here 3 times a day. It’s healthy with a lot of carbohydrates, but coming from Europe it’s quite a difference.
Because the sun sets around 5.30pm here but the humidity stays, around 8pm you really feel tired so I went to bed early. Next morning I woke up at 5.00am again because of the rain and sunlight. It looks like I also have to get used to a new daily rhythm, going with the light of day. This day we went back to the reserve, but this time we could stay on the small paths in a part of the reserve that was bought during the beginning of the project 8 years ago and has been studied since than. Our job was to determine all the butterflies and dragonflies we came across during the half day walk. It was my first experience with trying to catch butterflies. In the beginning I was always to slow, and afraid of hurting them, but after a while I learned how to catch them in a animalfriendly way. Apart from many different butterflies and dragonflies, we also saw many strawberry frogs and also some cool black-and-green frogs along the path. Beautiful but again very poisonous. Nature has evolved in a very interesting way here, with an enormous amount and variety of animals who all found a different but clever way to avoid being eaten by other animals.
In the afternoon we first got a presentation of two students who analysed the data gathered in the first year about trees in the different parts of the reserve to find out if there are big differences in the variety, density etc between these different parts that have a different history in previous landuse and potential deforestation. After the presentation we all went to the local football field to play a weekly Friday afternoon footballgame with the local people.
In the weekends there is no official research or fieldwork, so Saturday morning I went with another volunteer to a recently build birdwatchtower on an edge of the reserve, which borders Barbilla national park (a national park where hardly any people are allowed to go in, so wildlife is still quite intact there). As birds are most active right after sunrise, which is around 5am, we had to get up at 4am. That sounds early but as I mentioned before, daily timeschedules are different here so it wasn’t even that hard to get up so early. And definately worth it. For the first time since I arrived there was a clear sky and the low hanging clouds in from of a vulcano on the horizon turned beautifully pink. After the sunrise we saw many parakeets, mostly in couples but also some big flocks, with their green fluorescent coloured feathers shining beautifully in the sunlight. Next to the tower were some woodpeckers flying in and out their hole and what made me really happy was to see some toucans. So great to see them fly in the free sky and not in a small cage.
After two hours the air became to hot for most of the birds. Only the vultures appreciated it much, floating around on the thermals. We went back to the compound, had a nice breakfast (by now you can guess what it was) and then I finally could start writing this weblog. I made a beginning 3 days ago but after one hour half of the keys on my laptop didn’t work anymore because of the humidity. Luckily Maarten (the Dutch guy who started this project 8 years ago together with his partner Hanneke) went into town and could buy an external keyboard today to help me out.
In the afternoon we joined the birthday party of one of the sons from Maarten and Hanneke. Different from the Netherlands, here the parents of the invited kids all stay during the party to talk while the kids are playing and running around. The party ends with the children trying to hit a piñata while being blindfolded. When it breaks a lot of candy comes out, so of course all the children (and apparently also the mothers) were all looking forward to that final part of the celebration. Feeling lazy from the beers food and birthday cake I couldn’t avoid craving for a small nap.
In the evening we were invited at Maarten and Hanneke’s house to do a funny ‘guess the music hit’ game. We all got so enthousiastic playing it that we kept playing untill midnight. (Remember that all the days before I went to bed between 8pm and 9pm). Luckily I didn’t drink that evening and next morning I could easily wake up at normal time, although nothing was planned for that Sunday. I really enjoyed a day of hanging around, finishing this weblog report and relax.
So that’s it for this week. I realise these two reports have been very detailed so I’ll try to be more to the point next time. Tomorrow is another day in the reserve, continuing making the plot lines. Tomorrow evening a whole bunch of students from the Netherlands will arrive so from Tuesday there will be less opportunities for me to join going into the reserve to do the fieldwork.
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It’s been about 2,5 days since I left Nijmegen en said goodbye to Welmoed. After a stay-over in Amsterdam to catch my flight in time, I flew to Costa Rica with a 6hours step over time in Toronto. After being on the way for about 24h I arrived in San Jose airport at midnight. I was planning to take an Uber to the hostel but without internet connection that was pretty difficult so eventually I had to take an official taxi. Luckily the taxidriver was very nice and put me off at the right place, even waiting for me to get inside the hostel safely. (San Jose is not very safe when it’s dark). The hostel looked closed but fortunately there was still someone at the reception. He told me there was no reservation under my name and the hostel was fully booked but after I showed my email conversation where I made the booking half a year ago, he suddenly found an room that was still free.
The next morning I woke up early, which eventually turned out to be quite convenient. First I had to find some breakfast, but most places had only either meatpies or sweet bread. Luckily I had some food left from the plane so I didn’t need to starve. Than I had to wait for the shops to open so I could buy a local SIM card. Again the people in the shops were very helpful so I started to relax and trust the Tico’s (the people from Costa Rica) a bit more every time.
With my local simcard installed I was ready to continue the trip to finally arrive at my first project. From the hostel area I had to take a bus into the centre. Without traffic that would take just 20 minutes but because the whole road seemed to be one traffic jam it took more than an hour. From the bus station I had to take a taxi again to arrive at an other bus station from where to buses to the Caribbean (East) side of the country leave. I took my changes to try Uber again and after 2 drivers had already gone, the 3th one finally stopped where I was. Then, once I arrived at the right busstation I could finally take the bus to Bataan. Once out of San Jose area I got the first sights of the rainforest with some small waterfalls along the road. Late afternoon I finally arrived at the destination. After a quick diner of rice and beans I did a little walk on the area with the other students and volunteers where we saw some cool frogs and even a tiny snake eating all the frog eggs from a big leave. Nature can be hard sometimes.
After this great first introduction into CostaRican wildlife I finally could go to bed at ease with the many sounds of nature including some really heavy rain during the night.
So far for now. Tomorrow I hope to write about everything I saw and did in the first 3 days I have been on this project.
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[title] => Laatste dag Playas del Coco
[message] => Vandaag onze laatste dag in Playas del Coco.
Vanmorgen ontbeten bij Guayoyo Coffee House.
Hier hadden we al een paar keer brood gehaald.
Heerlijk ontbijt.
Daarna de koffers al voor zover mogelijk ingepakt en de laatste was gedraaid zodat we zoveel mogelijk schoon mee terug kunnen nemen.
Om 13:30 lunchen in ons vertrouwde restaurant Coconutz Brewhouse.
Inmiddels zijn we bekende gasten en bij het afrekenen krijgen we hartelijk groeten en hopelijk tot snel weerzien.
Dit is zeker de moeite waard om te lunchen.
Dan op souvenir jacht. Valt behoorlijk tegen. Er is van alles te verkrijgen tegen woekerprijzen wat er echt niet aan af te zien is. We hebben toch een en ander kunnen vinden. De rest komt morgen wel in San José.
Daarna onze duikspullen ophalen bij Rich Coast Divers en terug naar het appartement voor een laatste duik in het zwembad en daarna de laatste spullen inpakken. Morgen om 9 uur worden we opgehaald om terug te gaan naar San José waar we nog 1 nacht doorbrengen.
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[title] => Laatste dag Duiken in Plajas del Coco
[message] => Helaas zit het er weer op. Vandaag de laatste 2 duiken van deze vakantie.
De eerste duik van vandaag is wel bijzonder. Het is namelijk de 400e duik van Ingrid.
Tijdens de briefing wordt ze door iedereen gefeliciteerd.
Onze eerste duik is bij Virador. Een mooie rotspartij die net boven water uitkomt.
Weer volop vis, haaien en Roggen. Er wordt zelfs een schil[ad waargenomen.
Onze tweede duik is op Monkey Head. Een rotspartij vlak bij de eerste duikstek dus maar kort varen en daar de 1 uur wachttijd tussen de duiken doorbrengen onder het genot van Ananas, Watermeloen, een cake en water of ice tea.
Mooi ook tijd om de eerste duik te bespreken.
Ook de tweede duik is visrijk. Vele scholen met vis kruisen ons pad. Ook hier weer haaien en natuurlijk zoals op ieder duik onze geliefde Puffer Fish.
Na het duiken is het zorgdragen voor het materiaal. Het moet goed drogen zodat we het overmorgen veilig mee kunnen nemen. We kunnen de spullen laten drogen bij de Duikschool.
Duiken zit er voor deze vakantie weer op.
Vandaag het normale ritueel volgen en morgen gaan voorbereiden van het vertrek.
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[title] => De 5e dag onderwater
[message] => Vandaag gaan we weer naar Catalina Island.
De plek waar mogelijk Manta Roggen zijn.
We zijn weer met 5 duikers en 3 begeleiders.
Voordeel van de 3 begeleiders is, dat wanneer iemand vlug door zijn lucht heen is, 1 begeleider mee omhoog gaat voor de saftey stop en de rest door kan duiken.
Maar goed ook want een van de duikers is na 30 minuten al door zijn lucht heen.
Deze keer hebben we meer geluk bij South Point met de Manta Roggen.
Er komen verschillende Roggen voorbij. Zelfs zo plotseling dat ik te laat ben om een foto te maken.
Het zijn zeer indrukwekkende beesten.
Verder zien we weer een aantal witpunt rif haaien en het nodige ander onderwater leven.
Voor onze 2e duik in de ochtend verlaten we toch Catalina Island en gaan we naar Rainbow Rock.
Hier zouden meer scholen vis zitten en meer kleur variatie.
De scholen vis klopte, de kleuren viel wel mee. Wel een mooie duik met een onverwacht einde.
Voorbij de rots was er een hele vreemde stroming waar het best even werken was. Er was ook heel veel zuurstof in het water waardoor het zicht af en toe 0 was.
Toch weer het nodige onderwater leven mogen aanschouwen.
Na de duik en opruimen van de spullen weer lunchen in ons inmiddels vertrouwde restaurant, CocoNut.
De obers kennen ons inmiddels en onze geliefde tafel is meteen beschikbaar.
Verder de dag weer in de rustmodus. Duiken in de vroege ochtend en 34C rond middaguur vraagt energie.
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[title] => Duikdag 4
[message] => De 4e dag duken in Playas del Coco.
Vandaag zijn we in het totaal met 5 duikers en 3 begeleiders.
Wij bevinden ons in een Europese groep.
Onze Divemaster is een Spaanse. De assistent is Duits. De 3e duiker is een Fransman en wij zijn Nederlands.
De eerste duiksite wordt Estudiantes. Een duik max 18 meter met veel roggen en zelfs schildpadden. Zelf niet gezien maar Ingrid had ze op de film.
Mooie duik, het zicht was iets beter maar nog steeds niet meer dan 10 meter en wazig.
De tweede duik maken we in redelijk ondiep water. Max 12 meter diep maar zeker de moeite waard. Punta Argentina. Een van de bijzondere dingen aan deze duikstek zijn de school Puffer vissen. Heel bijzonder omdat je deze normaal alleen solitair ziet. Verder heel veel schorpioen vissen. Voor de onervaren kijker best een zoekplaatje.
Verder de dag weer buseniss as useul.
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Hiervoor gaan we naar Catalina Island.
De eerste duik is op South Point.
Hier zien we uiteindelijk een paar Manta's. Helaas wat verder weg dus een echt duidelijk foto zat er niet in.
Ook hier viel het zicht erg tegen maar toch fijn gedoken.
De 2e duikstek wordt The Wall, het noordelijke gedeelte van de eilanden groep.
Helaas hier geen Manta's meer maar wel weer een leuke duik.
Na het duiken weer lunchen bij ons inmiddels favoriete plekje. Vandaag was het extra druk tijdens de lunch dus langer wachten op eten.
Rest van de dag rustig aan. Het is momenteel 34gr met een gevoelstemperatuur van tegen de 40gr.
Tijd voor een afkoeling in het zwembad bij het appartement.
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[message] => Vandaag gaan we voor de tweede dag duiken.
Er staan weer 2 duiken op het programma.
We hebben afgesproken dat we om kwart voor 8 aan de kust zijn zodat we niet eerst naar de duikschool hoeven. Scheelt ons dik een half uur.
De eerste duik wordt een diepe duik op "Sorpresa".
Het blijkt vandaag een duik met sterke stroming en slecht zicht te worden. Dat in combinatie met een diepe duik is eigenlijk niet de beste combinatie.
Bij het te water gaan zitten er al veel kleine kwallen in het water. Mooi maar best irritant.
Afdalen langs de ankerlijn anders ben je de rest kwijt.
Voor mij wordt het uiteindelijk geen prettige duik. Ik ga snel door mijn lucht heen en nadat de duikleider besluit om snel naar een andere kant te flipperen schiet ik van 100 Bar naar 50 Bar. Voordat ik aan het opstijgen kan beginnen heb ik nog maar 20 Bar open.
Op een of andere manier wil het niet meer lukken en ga ik samen met 1 Divemaster omhoog en schiet door de Safty-stop heen. Maar goed ook, ik heb no 0 Bar in de fles.
De overige groepsleden komen ook per 2 boven iedere groep op meer dan 50 meter van elkaar af.
Niet wat je noemt het schoolvoorbeeld van een goede duik.
Na een uur boven water volgt de 2e duik op "Tortuga".
Deze duik is in een aanzienlijk rustiger water en max 12 meter diep.
Een heerlijk ontspannen duik met de nodige vis.
Pufferfish, Wit punt Rif Haai, trompetvissen Leopard Ray's en nog veel meer.
Na een klein uurtje weer terug op de boot en daarna weer naar de kant.
Afspraken maken voor morgen omdat we naar de locatie gaan waar mogelijk Manta's zijn.
Daarna lunchen en verder een rustige dag. We hebben zo inspanning genoeg gehad voor vandaag.
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As I wrote in my last report, I went to the Osa peninsula on the Southwest Pacific Coast after coming back from Curacao. I spent 3 weeks working with Osa Conservation. Most projects I stayed 4 weeks but this one was more expensive. They told me that it was because the area is very popular for tourists and people who want to work with them. The reason it is so popular is because it’s known as the most biodiverse part of (the already very biodiverse) Costa Rica. Osa Conservation is right next to Corcovado, the biggest National Park of Costa Rica. Therefore it recieves many reseachers and interns from both North- and South America as well as from Europe. During my time there I figured that it’s indeed a special and biodiverse place. One of the interns was studying a complete new termite species they discovered recently. Other people had been building different types of arboreal bridges to find out what sort of animals would use them and which structures and kind of material is more preferred by them. Unfortunately many researchers were away during the Christmas holidays, so I couldn’t participate in their fieldwork. Luckily there was also a seaturtle project and the seaturtle team had to patrol the beach every night for green turtles and olive ripley turtles that would nest at the beach. In contrary to my project in October, here there’s no pouching for the eggs, but there are racoons and coatis that would still predate the nests. The beach area we had to patrol was much smaller, so it was no so exhausting as at Playa Hermosa in October.
It was also the time for the baby turtles to hatch, so during patrol we also had to check the nests in the hatchery so see where turtles started to come to the surface. Many times only a few from the nest would be already at the surface, others would be crawling upwards or still be asleep and only be at the surface next morning. Therefore we also had to go to the hatchery every morning to release those ones. (Luckily the turtle team was big enough so we as volunteers only had to go a few times a week). Though the first time I released the baby turtles was very special and beautiful, actually every time we released them was a beautiful moment, hoping that enough of them will survive their fragile babytime and live long enough to become adults.
There were two species of sea turtles nesting on the beach, the green turtle and olive ridley turtle and it was interesting to see the difference between both species. The baby green turtles are bigger and also much more awake once they are hatching. On the video you can see that the moment we release them at the beach, the green turtle babies go much faster than the other ones.
Next to seeing all these turtles, I indeed saw many other animals and can admit that the chance to see animals is higher than anywhere else in this country. At our place we had spider monkeys passing by almost every day and every morning around 4.00am we heard the howler monkeys waking up. (compared to them, a roaster is a really silent animal). Scarlet macaws and parrots flew over every day and toucans could be heard (and seen if you know where to look for them) frequently. The project had a lot of trails through mainly primary forests where I saw my first squirrel monkeys in the wild. Primary forest means that the forest is original and tropical trees had all changes to grow, so next to animals I was really impressed by the size and height of some of the trees.
A high biodiversity and chance to encounter animals also has a backside though. On the trails, that were full of leaves that fall off during the dry season, the chance to have snakes hidden under it is much higher. Knowing that, definitely made it more adventurous all the times we went out on the trails, especially when I went on my own. And we did see several snakes while walking, sometimes sleeping next to a tree, other times moving next to the paths or even on the roof of the dinner area on the campus. One time though when I was looking for animals with two other volunteers, although looking around all the time, one of the other volunteers accidently did step on a poisonous baby fer-de-lance snake. Luckily it didn’t get offended and just moved towards a tree the moment it got free from the human shoe.
In the end there was just one animal that I started disliking, being a big male coati, who came in our dorm rooms almost every day. In the beginning I had some energybars there, locked in a box, but coatis turn out to be better than racoons in opening bags, zips and boxes. Removing all food to the central kitchen (the only place that could be really locked off for animals) didn’t help; next day it went for my teabags and even opened the bag with silica sachets. After putting these away, he didn’t do any more damage to my stuff. (although he still might have come in the next day). But the next week, I had a banana in my bag hanging on my bed during the night. Coatis are diurnal and still a bit afraid of humans, so it should be fine to have it there only during one night. Well, this coati didn’t know that it was not noctural and came back that night while I was sleeping, trying to steal my banana. After chasing him off, that morning I checked my bags again to be sure there was really no fool or anything interesting left. That day he got so frustrated when checking my room that he started eating my toiletpaper. Some animals really don’t know when to stop annoying people. On the other hand, some interns at the project told me they had snakes under their house, so things can always be more unpleasant.
Looking back I can say that, although I had to pay a lot of money and couldn’t join most of the wildlife programs, I absolutely liked my time there and the 3 meals we got prepared every day with lots of salade and vegetables were very good and professional.
After my stay at Osa Conservation I spend a little week on the other side of the peninsula as a tourist, where I did some snorkeling, hiking and swimming in a little desolate river, hoping to see some rare animals like tapirs and pumas. I saw some tracks but didn’t get the luck to see them live.
Last week I started my last project here in Costa Rica, on a place in the mountains where it’s much cooler. But I’ll tell you about that next time.
I wish you all some warmth, knowing that it’s really winter there. Hold on, when I’m back in a month, I will bring some sunshine.
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No, don’t worry, I am not going to write this report in Spanish.
It’s been a while again since my last update. The last month I didn’t have a lot of time to write, which means I at least didn’t get bored. But now it’s time to get you all updated about what’s been going on in December.
After 3 weeks of working at the Rescate visitor center, as I described in the previous blog, I moved to another part of the country where the rescued animals will be released if possible. Because Rescate eventually tries to release as much animals as possible back into the wild. A 5 hour drive brought me to the Nicoya peninsula, where Rescate has bought some forest area in a quite deserted place. Every two weeks a truck arrives there from the rescue center, bringing food and other supplies and often animals than can be released. Most animals that arrive there are yellow naped amazones and spider monkeys, but also turtles, great currasows and incidently others like possums. I was really looking forward to start volunteering there, and finally be able to release animals back into the wild.
Some animals like turtles and possums can be released directly into the forest when they arrive. Some only need a few days to acclimatise before they are released. The monkeys and most birds that arrive there though, first need to be kept in big cages for several weeks. There they can relax from the transportation and the probable stress while being in the rescue center. Also they need to get used to the new surrounding, type of food and especially, the other animals of their species that are in and around the cage. While they are in their cage, we monitor them to see how they behave and react on each other and on humans.
Many parrots have to learn to fly again after having been in a cage as a pet for many years. Also they have to learn vocalizing as a bird again in stead of imitating human sounds like songs or crying babies. Monkeys especially need to learn behaving amongst other monkeys in a group and more important not being close to humans any more. So during the monitoring we try to see which animals show more natural behaviour, can move around normally and thus have a serious chance of surviving once released.
During my stay we released several yellow naped parrots. Catching them from within the cage was an interesting activity. First we ‘chased’ them with a long pole so they would fly up and down the cage and get tired after a while. When they are tired the stop flying high up and end on the ground, where they are easier to catch. Easier does not mean easy. Once on the ground they defend themselves with trying to bite you and put their claws and nails on you. The claws are okay, but their beaks and incredibly sharp and strong, so we had to wear thick leather gloves and try to catch them from their neck so they can’t reach with their beak anymore. The first time I tried to catch one, I was afraid of hurting them, but soon I figured out that they are not that fragile and you actually need to hold them firmly otherwise they’ll still manage to bite you.
Luckily I never got biten seriously and soon enough learnt how to catch and hold them. Once held firmly, we did some measurements and then brought them outside the cage. There they are put on the fence, where some of them climb up slowly to be close to their peer inside the cage and need some time before they fly off. Others can’t wait to be free and fly away the moment they are released.
Our responsibility didn’t stop there. Since the forest area where the release takes place is not enormous and the managers still don’t know how much food can be found there in the wild, every morning we bring food into the feeders that are around the cages and in the forest and then observe which and how many of the animals come to feed on them. During the time I was there, we always saw several animals that were released recently or in the previous years but also unknown ones that have probably been born in the wild as offspring from the released animals. (When they started the project, there weren’t much wild animals left in the area). So the rewilding is really working out.
In fact, some animals got so succesful that they were starting to be annoying sometimes. On the birdfeeders there were often great currasows and crested guans hanging around, trying to get the food that was meant for the macaws and parrots. On the monkey feeders, there were often big groups of coati invading the whole area so the monkeys got scared away. During my stay here I started to get more annoyed by the coatis, although they still look cute.
After the 2 weeks I spent here, I really learned a lot about the complicated process of releasing animals that have been captured for a long time or never learn foraging from their parents.
By this time I had been in Costa Rica for 3,5 months and I gave myself a small holiday. I went to Bonaire and Curacoa for a week, mainly to do some diving and snorkeling, but also to see how old dutch colonies look like nowadays.
The flights there and back were a little exciting because the islands lay only 60km from Venezuela. Luckily no flights were bombed during these days so I survived.
The coast of both Islands is really beautiful and tropical and it was beautiful to see many fish and also some seaturtles while I was in the water. Even though the coral in many places looked quite depressive and desolated.
Apart from nature I also liked the laid back ambience and friendly Antillian people there. I never new which language to speak with them because the all speak some Dutch, English and Spanish but among themselves mostly speak Papiamento. And that’s the only one I can’t speak[e-1f61c]
I also didn’t realise these islands are very touristic. The central harbor of Willemstad received between 2 and 5 cruise ships daily and also many Dutch people go there for holidays, living or temporal jobs. And though they all come to enjoy the beauty of nature, most of them didn’t give me the impression of being really close to nature. I had a great holiday week there, but I am glad to be back in Costa Rica at my new project on the Osa Peninsula, where people really seem to care about our beautiful planet.
Next time I hope to tell you about this project here. I wish you all a great start of the new year and hope 2026 will be the year where people finally stop being capitalist and get attached to nature again. Salud!
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After a quite depressing report last month, this one I guess will be more fun to read.
Since two weeks I have been working at the Rescate animal rescue centre in Alajuela, close to San Jose.
The rescue centre receives more then 3000 animals every year. Animals that are found in the wild, got injured, or were (illegally) kept as a pet before. All animals that arrive will be checked by a veterinarian for injuries, weaknesses and mental behavior. The goal is to prepare the animals to get back in the wild. Unfortunately, several animals have been to close to humans or didn’t learn from their parents how to survive, and therefore are kept in the rescue centre. Most of them can be watched by visitors, like in a regular zoo. Several animals get to stressed in contact with humans and need to be kept out of sight.
As a volunteer, we work mainly for the animals that can be watch in the visitor area of the rescue centre. Before I go into details about the work I do here, I want to inform you why so many animals arrive here every year.
Costa Rica is a country full of wild animals. Many local people will see them when they go into the forest or nature. When they see a young bird or mammal without it’s parents, they believe it’s left alone or it’s parents have died. This might be the case but often, parents just went hunting for food, or a young bird felt from the nest on the ground. The parents are still taking care of their children, as would humans do when their kid is left alone for a short time. If people take this animal out of it’s natural place, it often isn’t fit yet to survive by it’s own. If the animal is brought to the rescue centre inmediately, it still has a chance to adapt to it’s wildlife together with other animals of the same species. If people try to feed and raise it by themselves, it’s impossible to get it back into the wild.
Some people just like to have a wild animal as a pet. Wild animal trading is the 3th biggest illegal business in the world, after weapons and drugs. When the police or other governmental agency finds such pet, it will be confiscated and brought here. These animals never will be able to go back into the wild. They are to focused on humans, often had an unappropriate diet and have no idea how to get food in the wild.
Sometimes people find injured animals, for example because of electric wire, regular fences, entangled by human waste or being hit by a vehicle.
Another possibility is that an young animal is orphaned because it’s parents died, often being hunt. If the orphaned animal is old enough, it still has a good chance to survive in the wild when it’s brought in inmediately after being found.
Honestly, when I learned about all the reasons for animals brought into here, I was impressed realising that they manage to get most of these animals back into the wild. Within one week i will go to another part of the country, where these animals are prepared for release into their own nature. That must be a beautiful experience I imagine.
In the meantime here in the rescue centre we try to make live of the enclosed animals a little less boring. The enclosures where they live are furnitured with trees, leaves, branches, water, or whatever looks like their natural surrounding. But it’s still an enclosure, it’s small and the scenery never changes. Their food is normally served directly on a plate so there’s no real challenge for them. Our goal is to give them a little challenge and excitement (called an enrichment) once per week. How?
Every Monday we start thinking about the enrichment we want to give to each of these animals. The enrichment can be sensorial, food, environmental, cognitive and/or social. The idea is to vary the type and form of enrichment every week, to use food, materials, constructions that immitate the natural behaviour and prevent possible dangers in the construction or diet. When we construct the enrichment, we can not use wire, long pieces of rope, (they might get entangled or injured), food with to much fat, sweetness or calories (we don’t want obese animals). As we have to make enrichments for many animals, we can not spend to much time on the preparation (the animal should spend as least as much time using the enrichment as we spend on making it).
Apart from natural behavior we also have to think about the social behavior of the individuals that are in the enclosures. Some animals don’t like to share, or there’s a clear hierarchy in the group. To be sure that all animals in the enclosure get the chance to enjoy the enrichment, we need to make enough of them.
So what kind of enrichments have we been making these weeks?
For example, last week I was making some leave and meat balls for the jaguars. Starting with a little bowl of hay, you enwrap that with a big leave, put a little piece of meat, enwrap with another leave and continue up to 5 layers of leaves with small pieces of meat. Everything is tied together with a string of leave or vine branch. Luckily the climate in this country creates an abundance of fast growing plants like palm leaves, banana leaves and mainly grass leaves, that can also be used as strings by tearing them apart.
Another enrichment is a coconut in which we drilled some holes and filled these up with hay. Between the hay we put some mealworms, little pieces of fruit, spiders or pieces of egg or meat.
This week I was thinking of an appropriate enrichment for the coatis (the type of nosebears I first met in Monteverde cloud forest). Coatis use their nose to scan and dig the floor for insects, seeds or berries, so I wanted to make something where they have to do something similar. Together will one of our assistants we came up with the idea of making some leave racks in which we put some raisins, so they really have to work to find them.
Sometimes to enrichment can be really easy, like spreading some perfume around, or distribute a bucket of camomile enflavoured water through the enclosure.
After putting the enrichment in the enclosure (or throw it in, if we can not go in) we always watch the behaviour of the animals to see if they like the enrichment. Fortunately, in the last two weeks, most animals reacted positive on the enrichments. So although the spend their live locked up in a big cage, at least here they have something every week to look forward to. For us it’s nice to be able to do this for them. And of course it’s also nice to learn about the backstage work of animal centres. One time we had to clean a snake enclosure, while the snake was still inside. The assistant manager of course knew how to handle, but the snake got a bit to curious about what we came in for, so we had to leave it’s house and wait for anothe opportunity when it would be easier to get it.
Well, that’s it for now. I’ll try to share some photo’s and video’s about the enrichments and animal behaviour, but for most examples, you just have to wait untill I’m back and can show you all the rest.
Enjoy the cold autumn, here on the mainland the dry season is slowly starting.
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I hope you have all finishing reading the previous report from last week. (If not, first read that one and next time try to keep up!!)
Well, as promised, today I’ll write you about the reality behind saving turtles. Like every volunteer and tourist, I arrived here last week, hoping to see some turtles laying their eggs at the beach, helping to collect a lot of turtle eggs and especially help getting the new born turtle babies get into the sea safely. Unfortunately there are a lot of misunderstandings behind the process and there’s a lot of boring and exhausting work behind that idyllic picture.
Sea turtles put their eggs always at night, preferably at high tide. This means that saving the nests is always happening at a time I really should be sleeping, anywhere between 10pm and 05am. Some patrols only last a few hours but a week ago I had several night patrols lasting from 01am until 06am. While walking along the beach, it’s not allowed to put a white light as that will distract the turtles. During my first patrol I discovered that my red light is not very bright so I actually couldn’t see a lot. Luckily after a few times I got used to the poor sight and could start distinguishing the wood logs and branches from the sand on the beach, and also the slightly different sand colour where a turtle had been walking. Whenever we found such a trail, we followed it slowly inland; on a few occasions we saw the turtle actually being busy making her nest or putting the eggs. The first time I saw that, was very special and emotional. Also impressive because an average turtle nest contains between 80 and 100 eggs!
Most of the times there was no turtle anymore, which can indicate several options; in the most positive scenario the turtle has finished her nest, got back into the ocean and the nest is still intact. Often though there was no nest, probably because the turtle got disturbed by some animal, movement or white light from a car or house and just went back into the ocean. The third and worst case posibility though is that there was a nest but the nest is destroyed. At night there are a lot of racoons (attracked by the food people leave near their house or on the beach) and other predator animals (like house dogs walking free on these protected areas of the beach). And there are many poachers here in Costa Rica who steal the eggs from the nests and sell them.
Turtles eggs have been a delicacy in these countries for many years and although now it is officially illegal to collect and sell the eggs, many poor people still keep on doing it. And many people believe there’s some afrodisiacum or longevity supporting substance in the eggs, so they will still eat it.
So there are many reasons while these turtle nests need protection from getting destroyed. And walking at night at the beach is not without danger. There are several small rivers ending at the beach and after a heavy rainfall, there might be soms crocodiles hanging around there, waiting for soms fish, small animals or a nice human leg they can feed on.
Next to the poachers trying to steal the eggs, there’s also the posibility of drugscartels hanging around at the beach and you don’t want to get too close to them. That’s why on some parts of the beach we can also go in company of National Park security Rangers or Police Coastguards.
When we do find an intact turtle nest, we preferably dig up the nest so we can transfer the eggs to the hatchery where it’s suppost to be safe from humans and animals. The eggs are soft shelled and very fragile which means that you can only touch them very gentle with alcohol cleaned hands (and the alcohol has to be evaporated and washed off with clean beach sand). The eggs need to be transported in soft bags that are free of chemicals or micro-organisms. The bags can get heavy after walking with them for a while but may only be put down once you are at the hatchery or in specific cases also on clean sand from the intermareal area (area between low and high tide).
The hatchery used to be just a place on the beach close to where we stay, marked by bamboo sticks and patrolled by anyone around to make sure no one enters the hatchery. New research has changed to rules for hatcheries though. Bamboo wood is not strong enough and might contains micro-organisms like fungi after being used for several months. Ants and other insects can also infect the eggs, so the hatchery must have special protection tissues that avoid insects from getting in. The sand used in the hatchery must be free of stones, roots, insects etc. The hatchery must be built away from artificial light and be protected from real high tides coming in and transporting wood and human-made debris towards it. It also has to be close to the place where most turtles nest. All these new requirements meant that the new hatchery had to be build away from the refuge where we stay and close to a habitated suburb of the drugstown Jaco. For us to get there, means driving for almost 40 minutes, of which 20 minutes crossing 3 km of dirt road in very bad conditions. (the road is not owned by the government and the people owning the road and the houses along it don’t want to get it fixed). The shorter way would be walking along the beach but there’s a big river in between full of crocodiles so that’s not a safe option.
Once the first eggs are buried in that hatchery, there must be 24/7 guarding to avoid animals and humans trying to get it. Officially the foundation has local volunteers living close, who take that responsibility. In practice, many of these volunteers cancel their shift all of a sudden, or don’t really do their job and just hang around at the beach. A week ago, when we entered the hatcherry at night, ready to bury soms fresh eggs, we discovered a racoon had just come in and destroyed a whole nest (luckily only one, because in 30 minutes it could have destroyed all the nests that were inside).
Last week there were hardly any local volunteers to guard the hatchery, so we as international volunteers had to be there in shifts the whole week. We were supposted to do the shifts by 2 people, but some volunteers got a bit sick so eventually it turned out I had to do most shifts by myself. Especially during the night shifts (it’s dark here between 5pm and 5am) it’s a hard and boring job. There is very bad internet reception, there’s no toilet, electricity or running water there. We have to be outsite, close to the hatchery and checking for animals every few minutes. On one of these nightshifts I saw 4 racoon and 1 possum within 2 hours, so at least my presence was usefull that night. Also at any time during day and night. There will arrive so people by car or foot. The beach near the hatchery and parking area are closed to public, but as some people use the isolated place to sell drugs, it recommended to not talk to them but just call the police. (which is difficult if you have no phone reception and the police would come anyway, while they have bigger drugsproblems to solve at nights).
During the day shifts we had another challenge. The edges of the hatchery are protected and stabilised with sand bags, plastic bags filled with beach sand. Unfortunately on one side of the hatchery, all of a sudden many of these bags got torn open. Probably some person walked over the bags, which shouldn’t be a problem normally, but the plastic appeared to be completely deteriorated and was falling apart completely. As the sand in the hatchery has to be completely free of plastic, this means we have to get all these plastic particles out of there. There is no money to rent a shovel and just remove all the contaminated sand (and what can you do with all that sand; you don’t want the plastic particles getting into the ocean or somewhere in nature!)
So I have been trying several ways to get the least amount of contaminated sand;
-mixing the sand with seawater didn’t work, half of the plastic didn’t float
-putting the sand through a big metal sieve didn’t work, the plastic broke down into even small pieces and went through.
-using a kitchen sieve gave some positive results, I could separate more plastic but not the smaller parts (of which the ocean is completely filled up these days)
-using a linen bag after that made me get most of the plastic out, but still not everything.
Knowing this, now I have to start cleaning the sand that I separated already (about 10% of the whole area). That will take a few days so I probably won’t be able to finish it, as this week is my last week at the turtle project.
As you might start to understand, protecting turtles requires a lot more than just going to the beach and release some turtle hatchlings. Still this is what most tourists see and do when they come to Costa Rica during hatchling season. Many people here collect turtle eggs by them self, put them in the ground at the beach in front of their house or company, wait 50 days for the turtles to hatch and them let people pay a lot of money so they can come to the beacht at daylight and each hold one babyturtle which they can put at the sea ridge. The chance of these turtles to survive is almost zero! Why?
-The eggs in these nests are buried with bare hands without taking protection so the eggs are contaminated and many of the eggs won’t develop properly.
-Baby turtles always hatch at night, and than need some time to orientate themselves so they know where they are and can come back years later to lay their own eggs. They use the time to digest the last food left in the egg and gain the strength to go towards the sea.
-Waiting to release them until the tourists arrive causes them to get desorientated by the daylight, not having enough strenght anymore to survive the first day in the sea, having many birds and reptiles around that can eat them the moment they get into the sea.
-Putting the turtles directly at sea ridge means they miss the time to orientate so they can come back later to lay their eggs.
-You really mix up natural selection. A nest of 100 eggs normally means around 80 turtles coming out alive. Some of them are blind or otherwise physically injured and won’t make it to the sea. These are the ones that predators normally take so the healthy ones get more change to survive.
-Last but not least, the babies are very vulnerable and direct contact with human hands or other unnatural substances will harm them.
As you see, I learned a lot these weeks about what’s right and wrong when trying to save turtles and the necessary work requires a lot of boring night work, ruined biorhythm, continuously changing plans caused by heavy weather and failing volunteers and living a primitive life because there’s no money to do things the easy or efficient way. And after all my work, I haven’t seen one baby turtle yet (all the problems above meant we only started the actual burying of the eggs in the hatchery 2 weeks ago). I am happy I could do my part and helping this small not profit foundation, I have learned a lot but it’s been some though weeks.
In one week I will start my next project at Rescate Animal rescue centre. That’s gonna be a whole new and different experience again, but for sure, not so much nightwork and much more actually working with the animals themselves.
I realise this report has been more serious than the previous ones, but yeah, that’s life sometimes. Have a great time and I’ll be back in a few weeks.
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While everyone in the Netherlands is busy with the upcoming elections [e-1f534] next Wednesday, I am living a more primitive [e-26c8]life at the Pacific, trying to safe as much turtle eggs [e-1f422][e-1f423]as possible.
After behaving like a ostrich for half a year, not wanting to follow the daily news anymore, last week I opened up my NOS app again, curious about how the political campaign was developing. I secretly hoped that people would finally realise that Climate Change [e-1f30a] and Nature degeneration [e-1f334] really is something we all should be worried about. I noticed they’re not[e-1f629]. I still hope for a positive result[e-2705] after Wednesday but in the meantime I feel even more encouraged to keep on doing my best to safe the last bits of nature we have left, giving up a lot of night sleep [e-1f635] to get that done.
But before I’ll tell you all about what it means to save turtles and their eggs, I should start where I finished 3 weeks ago; the Monteverde CloudForest[e-2601][e-1f333].
Monteverde literally means ‘green mountain[e-26f0]’ and is called so because it’s a rainforest area on a elevation of about 1500-1800m a.s.l. For that reason, the rainforest and area are often hidden in the clouds[e-1f32b], giving it a slightly different habitat and therefore called cloudforest. During the 4 days I stayed there, I visited different parts of the forest area. Next to the several species of monkeys[e-1f435][e-1f412] I had seen already at the Carribean Coast, I met a whole family of Coati (a kind of nose bear[e-1f43c]) sniffing around among the trees right next to the path, some funny looking, rather shy agoutis [e-1f43f](a kind of rodent) and also some beautiful birds [e-1f54a] with colourful long tail feathers.
After walking through the parks for 2 days, the third day I did it the way Monteverde is most famous for; getting around at canopy level. Most tourists like to do it by zipline, crossing the canopy by distances up to 1000m in just a minute, but in that way you don’t really see animals. The other way is by crossing over hanging bridges, so you can actually see the trees from the top and also the birds (and some monkeys) that enjoy the fruits and seeds high up the trees.
Because of low season, I was one of the very few tourists at that day taking the hanging bridges, so I could take my time. After 2 hours going slower than a sloth I had crossed the whole trail, went for a coffee[e-2615] and wanted to go around once more. The ticket unfortunately was valet for one entry only, but after talking for 10 minutes with the guards, they let me get in for a second time [e-1f600]
Although I enjoyed the scenery [e-1f3de] of the parks and the lower temperature in the mountain these days, the entry fees of at least $25 for each park is much higher than it should be. (The Cahuita national Park I was the week before only asked for a suggested $5-$10 donation). Fortunately there is a really mystical nice place, free of charge and only 10 minutes walking from the village centre. I only had to walk down a small path towards a little river, completely hidden by the clouds, where I found a very unique tree formation. The tree itself, standing on the edge above the river, has grown it’s roots so well, that it crosses the river both from above throught the air as well as all the way down to and through the river below, creating a magnific Lord of the Rings scenery. Although free of charge and so close to the centre of the village, the two times I went there, I was the only one around. What else do you need to forget about your problems [e-262f] and enjoy live at the very moment[e-1f607]
After these 4 days I left the mountains to get in a more touristic place, next to the Arenal Volcano [e-1f5fb]. Getting there from Monteverde we had to cross an artificial lake (a hydro-electric reservoir) where we had a beautiful close view on the cone shaped volcanic mountain. Also from the town/touristic hub accomodating all visitors, you felt like the volcano was right next to you, giving beautiful views during day and night.
Many wealthy people book a big room in one of the newly build 5star hotels, which provide ‘natural’ hot pools to swim [e-1f3ca]. Luckily I met some locals who informed me where to get to the real hot water from the volcano free of charge. The host from my hostel advised me to go after dark, when it’s less crowded and air temperature much nicer and invited me and the other hostel guests to go together that evening. For 2 hours we enjoyed the natural pool and sounds of frogs [e-1f438] and running water, lighted by only some candlelights[e-1f56f] (and made me miss having Welmoed there with me[e-2764]).
Next day was the last day of my trip before I had to go back to San Jose and get to my next project and I decided to walk a trail getting to the bottom of the last Lava flow of 1968 [e-1f30b] which gave an even better view on the mountain cone. Getting there I crossed some forest again, where I saw several new bird species, like a big kind of tree turkey [e-1f983].
After getting back in town, I treated myself on a nice vegetarian casada (a local food plate [e-1f37d] with lots of vegetables[e-1f33d][e-1f345][e-1f346], salad, beans and tortillas[e-1f32e]).
These 2 weeks of holiday in between my voluntary projects have been really nice, giving me the opportunity to get a wider impression of the nature and people of this beautiful but also poor and ‘not so safe as they tell in the brochures[e-1f4d7]’ country.
Time to start saving turtles, as you’ll read in my next report[e-1f4f0], coming up soon [e-1f551] …..
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[message] => Welcome back dear followers. It’s time for a new update. I am writing this report while sitting in a real backpackers hostel in San Jose. Although I’ve been in this country for almost 1,5 months now, it’s actually my first day in the Capital. As I might remember, the day I arrived here I went inmediately towards the ‘study the rainforest’ project. And Ididn’t regret it, because San Jose is just a big city with a lot of poverty and not much to see or do apart from shopping for clothes or terrible plastic toys. So there hardly any tourists here and apart from the centre parts it’s not recommended to walk around anyway.
But okay, let’s start where I finished my last report. A week before I finished at the rainforest project, two new students from the Netherlands arrived, which made my very happy because one of them brought my new phone (which I ordered in the NLs to safe a lot of money). So from that day on I could make really nice photo’s again (which was honestly the main reason to buy that phone). During my last weekend there, we went on a boat trip through one of the rivers here, watching wildlife from the water. That day my phone proved already that it was worth the investment. We saw a lot of birds, iguanas, some monkeys and even a sloth (If you do a tour without seeing at least one, it’s really bad luck). Although some birds were to far away to get a nice photo of them, I at least got some nice photo’s of some of them as well as some monkeys.
This boat trip also was a sort of starting my touristy time here. In the reserve and compound where we worked and lived we saw many frogs, spiders, butterflies, some birds and eventually some snakes (the last night there we found a small cute coffee snake on the path to the accomodation that liked to go around my wrist like a bracelet), so seeing some monkeys, iguanas and waterbirds was something new for me here.
My first destination while travelling by myself was the less touristic little town of Cahuita, which is especially known for snorkeling. The day I arrived there I found out that i could just get into the water from my hostel and see nice fish, although the reef and coral life was not very brilliant. Next day I went snorkeling close to the national park shore. Go snorkeling there is only allowed with a guide and on a tour which of course means paying a lot of money. I didn’t find that, looking forward to see a more vivid reef and dito marine animals. Unfortunately the reef wasn’t really more colourful, although we did see some reef sharks, manta rays and lion fish so it was still nice. After the snorkeling we walked back through the national park with the guide and again saw some snakes, lizards, 3 sweatwater turtles and again a sloth (though far away and always hard to spot as they appear big termite bowls or knobs in the tree).
The next day I went back into the park by myself. In the beginning local guides told me to take a guide, otherwise I wouldn’t see much. Well, they were wrong. I first saw a family of racoons playing around like dogs. A little bit later I saw some families of capuchin monkeys, with one of them getting pretty close so I decided to step back in case he wanted to take my camera, which he didn’t do. A little bit later when I was halfway the trail at a small picknick area I wanted to take a snack. All of a sudden a capuchin monkey came running towards my bag. I tried to safe by bag with nuts from him stealing it, but the guy was smart enough to just go into my backpack and going to steal my bag of dried fruits. Although they are really small, they have sharp teeth and I didn’t want to fight with him so let him take the bag and run off into a tree (and actually I was also a bit shocked for a short moment by what he did). I was most worried about him eating the plastic of getting sick by eating to much fruits in one time but of course monkeys are smart enough to just rip open a bag and probably also know when to stop eating. Anyway I wasn’t waiting for him to finish the bag and throw it down from the trees, so continued walking for another ten minutes until I felt safe enough to sit down and have my own snack.
At the end of the trail I even saw a nosebear, which was really the first time in my life to see that in the wild; so it was a really interesting and educational walk that day, without needing a guide.
Next day I had to get up early to catch a boat taking me all the way from Limon to Tortuguero through the cannels and rivers near the Carribean see. Although we went really fast, it took more than 3,5 hours on the boat. Tortuguero is surrounded by cannels so the only way to get there is by boat (or airplane if you’re really rich and lazy). Tortuguero is about the only place on the Carribean coast where you can watch sea turtles come ashore to lay eggs and next to Puerto Viejo therefore the only real touristic place on the Carribean Coast. I think I was the only tourist there NOT going to see the turtles. The tour is $35 and I’ll be working with sea turtles for a whole month soon. I did book a early morning canoe tour to get around throught to canals; although the wildlife is about the same as at the Pacuare river, by canoe we could even get much closer to the animals without chasing them away. Now I could picture all those herons and cormorants from really close and even see a young alligator waiting for one of us putting his hand in the water. the most impressed I was though by a strange bird, which could turn it’s wings inside out while drying them in the wind, making it look like a real Buddhist bird.(see the photo to see what I mean).
Later that morning I made a hike in the tortuguero national park while I saw a lot of cute little lizards (mainly the whiptail lizards) and also a lot of spider monkeys. They are also funny to look at and don’t get so easily aggressive to humans).
The next most special thing to do in Tortuguero is walking up a vulcanic hill. To get there I had to take another boat (it started to look a bit like Venice, taking boats to get anywhere). Getting to the top of the hill meant going up about 500 stairs but it was really nice to have a view on the canals and the coastline after having been there for more than a day.
After that full day of watching nature, today I made it back to San Jose as I wrote above, but only to get an early morning bus to Monteverde tomorrow. That is part of the cloud forest of Costa Rica, which means it’s higher up in the mountains, so hopefully it’s cooler there. For sure there’s even more propability to get rain there, so let’s see what that means in real life. I’ll let you know next time.
Let’s end with the same request as last time. I also like to know about all of your lifes, so if you have time, make me happy and write something by whatsapp, email or just replying on this blog.
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It has been quiet here for the last 2 weeks. That doesn’t mean nothing happened here but a lot of things I described in my previous blog, quickly became normal. After a few days I got used to the humidity and feeling a bit sweaty all the time. Also the pinto (the rice and beans) has become normal and as it’s a healthy meal, I even appreciate it now as a start of the day.
Also hearing the sound of the toucans, seeing gecko’s, butterflies and hummingbirds all around me, had become normal (although I still haven’t managed to take a photo of a hummingbird drinking from a flower). And I also still enjoy seeing the leave frogs near the pools at night, as well as the strawberry poison frogs (officially called the dendrobates pomilio). Last Friday we walked a particular part of the reserve (called a transect) to cound all amphibians and reptiles we see on that part (this is done weekly to collect data about the differences in presence/absence of different species in the different areas during the years). On that particular morning we saw 55 of these strawberry frogs in a time period of about 1,5 hours!
Another reason I haven’t been reporting these weeks is because my phone almost died caused by the humidity and heath. One morning after I made a phonecall, al of a sudden the screen didn’t work anymore, so I couldn’t see anything on the phone. Keeping it in the only AC cooled room in the whole compound for a day and night didn’t really work. Luckily one moment the light came back a bit and I could put the screenlight on almost maximum. Since then I can use it again, but making clear photo’s became more difficult and sometimes the light still disappears, so I decided to buy a new phone. Our costarican colleague told me that cellphones in Costa Rica are extremely expensive because of the import tax. He was right; the phone I decided to buy would cost me €1300 here, in NL it would only be around €900. Luckily next weekend a new student will arrive here from the Netherlands, so I ordered my phone there and she will bring it to me. How nice!
Apart from looking for a new phone, I’ve also been busy planning my mini holiday for the first 2 weeks of October. Between the projects I’m working now and the next one (the Corcovado turtle conservation) I have two weeks to travel around. There’s plenty of public transport but it is difficult to find bus schedules online and buses frequently arrive later at their destination than scheduled because of traffic jams or road construction detours. Renting a car by myself is too expensive so I do rely on the public buses.
Also I am planning the second part of my sabbitical, when I come back here after Christmas.
In the meantime I have been planting some trees along the trail through the small forest we have here on the compound and also started to put the information signs about the different animals and plants that are likely to be found and seen here on the compound and in the reserve.
Last but not least I was asked to make a nice sign to mark the end of one of the transects I’ve been writing about above, so I even had to put in practice my Waldorf creativity of the last years.
It might look like I have been stuck here in the wild for weeks. Luckily we do leave this area sometimes during the weekend. Last weekend we went to a much more touristic place at the beach, called Puerto Viejo. Although it’s only about 100km from here, it took us 3 hours to get there, taking two different buses and waiting on the bus station for an hour between both of them.
It was an experience to suddenly see more ‘gringos’ (officially the name for people from the US but used for any western tourist), because here in the village we are the only ones. With the tourists come all the restaurants serving western food, the people selling all touristy stuff, but more important, the nice vivent ambience with music played from the different bars and restaurants. Swimming in the sea is different from the Netherlands. The waves are much bigger but the current also much stronger, so we could only swim in a small area and close to the shore to be safe (which I did, because I promised Welmoed not to drown during my stay here). I even rented a surfboard for an hour to try and catch some waves (I took a few lessons 10 years ago in Sydney). I realised again how difficult and straining it is to learn surfing, though I did enjoy it in the meantime.
Well, now you are up-to-date again. I like it when you leave some comments so I know people read my newspapers and appreciate them [e-1f60a]
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After I arrived at the project location in the nature just outside a small village called San Miguel, I had a small dinner of rice and beans and than made a short nightwalk around the compound with the other students. First thing you learn is that whenever you go off the paved paths you have to wear boots and a light if it’s dark. There can always be a snake, scorpion or something else on your way that will bite or sting you. On the small walk we did there were several frogs, (like the poisonous strawberry frog), spiders and even a small snake eating all the eggs from a frog (see the photo on my previous blog).
After this nice first meeting with wildlife I finally could have a great sleep. Because of the little jetlag, the neverending jungle sounds and the high humidity I still woke up very early. After breakfast I was supposed to have an easy going start up on the compound, but one of the students wasn’t able to join the work in the reserve so all of a sudden I found myself going into the wild jungle.
What we had to do that day is set out the edges of a plot of 50x50 meters in a part of the 10 km2 reserve area. After walking for about 30 minutes in a very uneven and slippery terrain we could start setting out the plot. The first part of it is just walking perfectly north, trying to make a small 1m wide path of 50meters long, which means cutting away all leaves and branches in that strip while trying to not remove any more than necessary. Once it’s cleared, you put a pole on every 10 meter distance to indicate the borde your making. This is very important because the plants will grow back very fast so by this way at least you can later recognise the border of the plot you made. After the first edge is finished, you make the other 3 edges of 50meter each.
Well, this all sounds funny and easy in theory, but as the surface is very uneven, slippery and somethings there’s a hole or a big tree in your way, in reality it takes a lot of time to find a square that’s possible to set out. And of course when we were halfway our first edge, it started to rain. It took 5 minutes for the rain to reach the ground passing the full canopy, but as it rained for more than an hour we got completely soaked. Putting a raincoat wouldn’t help because it’s still hot and humid, so a raincoast would make you even more wet and sweaty.
After we finished our first 50meters of the plot, we had our lunch in the rain. Lunch was mainly rice and beans again, and some left over salad from the day before. After lunch we dediced to go back to the compound, as it had just become to slippery to continue. At the farm I took a nice cold shower, but 5 minutes later I was sweating again. Being in the rainforest means getting used to the heath and humidity. And also to the rice and beans (called pincho in Costa Rica) because that’s what they normally eat here 3 times a day. It’s healthy with a lot of carbohydrates, but coming from Europe it’s quite a difference.
Because the sun sets around 5.30pm here but the humidity stays, around 8pm you really feel tired so I went to bed early. Next morning I woke up at 5.00am again because of the rain and sunlight. It looks like I also have to get used to a new daily rhythm, going with the light of day. This day we went back to the reserve, but this time we could stay on the small paths in a part of the reserve that was bought during the beginning of the project 8 years ago and has been studied since than. Our job was to determine all the butterflies and dragonflies we came across during the half day walk. It was my first experience with trying to catch butterflies. In the beginning I was always to slow, and afraid of hurting them, but after a while I learned how to catch them in a animalfriendly way. Apart from many different butterflies and dragonflies, we also saw many strawberry frogs and also some cool black-and-green frogs along the path. Beautiful but again very poisonous. Nature has evolved in a very interesting way here, with an enormous amount and variety of animals who all found a different but clever way to avoid being eaten by other animals.
In the afternoon we first got a presentation of two students who analysed the data gathered in the first year about trees in the different parts of the reserve to find out if there are big differences in the variety, density etc between these different parts that have a different history in previous landuse and potential deforestation. After the presentation we all went to the local football field to play a weekly Friday afternoon footballgame with the local people.
In the weekends there is no official research or fieldwork, so Saturday morning I went with another volunteer to a recently build birdwatchtower on an edge of the reserve, which borders Barbilla national park (a national park where hardly any people are allowed to go in, so wildlife is still quite intact there). As birds are most active right after sunrise, which is around 5am, we had to get up at 4am. That sounds early but as I mentioned before, daily timeschedules are different here so it wasn’t even that hard to get up so early. And definately worth it. For the first time since I arrived there was a clear sky and the low hanging clouds in from of a vulcano on the horizon turned beautifully pink. After the sunrise we saw many parakeets, mostly in couples but also some big flocks, with their green fluorescent coloured feathers shining beautifully in the sunlight. Next to the tower were some woodpeckers flying in and out their hole and what made me really happy was to see some toucans. So great to see them fly in the free sky and not in a small cage.
After two hours the air became to hot for most of the birds. Only the vultures appreciated it much, floating around on the thermals. We went back to the compound, had a nice breakfast (by now you can guess what it was) and then I finally could start writing this weblog. I made a beginning 3 days ago but after one hour half of the keys on my laptop didn’t work anymore because of the humidity. Luckily Maarten (the Dutch guy who started this project 8 years ago together with his partner Hanneke) went into town and could buy an external keyboard today to help me out.
In the afternoon we joined the birthday party of one of the sons from Maarten and Hanneke. Different from the Netherlands, here the parents of the invited kids all stay during the party to talk while the kids are playing and running around. The party ends with the children trying to hit a piñata while being blindfolded. When it breaks a lot of candy comes out, so of course all the children (and apparently also the mothers) were all looking forward to that final part of the celebration. Feeling lazy from the beers food and birthday cake I couldn’t avoid craving for a small nap.
In the evening we were invited at Maarten and Hanneke’s house to do a funny ‘guess the music hit’ game. We all got so enthousiastic playing it that we kept playing untill midnight. (Remember that all the days before I went to bed between 8pm and 9pm). Luckily I didn’t drink that evening and next morning I could easily wake up at normal time, although nothing was planned for that Sunday. I really enjoyed a day of hanging around, finishing this weblog report and relax.
So that’s it for this week. I realise these two reports have been very detailed so I’ll try to be more to the point next time. Tomorrow is another day in the reserve, continuing making the plot lines. Tomorrow evening a whole bunch of students from the Netherlands will arrive so from Tuesday there will be less opportunities for me to join going into the reserve to do the fieldwork.
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It’s been about 2,5 days since I left Nijmegen en said goodbye to Welmoed. After a stay-over in Amsterdam to catch my flight in time, I flew to Costa Rica with a 6hours step over time in Toronto. After being on the way for about 24h I arrived in San Jose airport at midnight. I was planning to take an Uber to the hostel but without internet connection that was pretty difficult so eventually I had to take an official taxi. Luckily the taxidriver was very nice and put me off at the right place, even waiting for me to get inside the hostel safely. (San Jose is not very safe when it’s dark). The hostel looked closed but fortunately there was still someone at the reception. He told me there was no reservation under my name and the hostel was fully booked but after I showed my email conversation where I made the booking half a year ago, he suddenly found an room that was still free.
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With my local simcard installed I was ready to continue the trip to finally arrive at my first project. From the hostel area I had to take a bus into the centre. Without traffic that would take just 20 minutes but because the whole road seemed to be one traffic jam it took more than an hour. From the bus station I had to take a taxi again to arrive at an other bus station from where to buses to the Caribbean (East) side of the country leave. I took my changes to try Uber again and after 2 drivers had already gone, the 3th one finally stopped where I was. Then, once I arrived at the right busstation I could finally take the bus to Bataan. Once out of San Jose area I got the first sights of the rainforest with some small waterfalls along the road. Late afternoon I finally arrived at the destination. After a quick diner of rice and beans I did a little walk on the area with the other students and volunteers where we saw some cool frogs and even a tiny snake eating all the frog eggs from a big leave. Nature can be hard sometimes.
After this great first introduction into CostaRican wildlife I finally could go to bed at ease with the many sounds of nature including some really heavy rain during the night.
So far for now. Tomorrow I hope to write about everything I saw and did in the first 3 days I have been on this project.
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[title] => Laatste dag Playas del Coco
[message] => Vandaag onze laatste dag in Playas del Coco.
Vanmorgen ontbeten bij Guayoyo Coffee House.
Hier hadden we al een paar keer brood gehaald.
Heerlijk ontbijt.
Daarna de koffers al voor zover mogelijk ingepakt en de laatste was gedraaid zodat we zoveel mogelijk schoon mee terug kunnen nemen.
Om 13:30 lunchen in ons vertrouwde restaurant Coconutz Brewhouse.
Inmiddels zijn we bekende gasten en bij het afrekenen krijgen we hartelijk groeten en hopelijk tot snel weerzien.
Dit is zeker de moeite waard om te lunchen.
Dan op souvenir jacht. Valt behoorlijk tegen. Er is van alles te verkrijgen tegen woekerprijzen wat er echt niet aan af te zien is. We hebben toch een en ander kunnen vinden. De rest komt morgen wel in San José.
Daarna onze duikspullen ophalen bij Rich Coast Divers en terug naar het appartement voor een laatste duik in het zwembad en daarna de laatste spullen inpakken. Morgen om 9 uur worden we opgehaald om terug te gaan naar San José waar we nog 1 nacht doorbrengen.
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[title] => Laatste dag Duiken in Plajas del Coco
[message] => Helaas zit het er weer op. Vandaag de laatste 2 duiken van deze vakantie.
De eerste duik van vandaag is wel bijzonder. Het is namelijk de 400e duik van Ingrid.
Tijdens de briefing wordt ze door iedereen gefeliciteerd.
Onze eerste duik is bij Virador. Een mooie rotspartij die net boven water uitkomt.
Weer volop vis, haaien en Roggen. Er wordt zelfs een schil[ad waargenomen.
Onze tweede duik is op Monkey Head. Een rotspartij vlak bij de eerste duikstek dus maar kort varen en daar de 1 uur wachttijd tussen de duiken doorbrengen onder het genot van Ananas, Watermeloen, een cake en water of ice tea.
Mooi ook tijd om de eerste duik te bespreken.
Ook de tweede duik is visrijk. Vele scholen met vis kruisen ons pad. Ook hier weer haaien en natuurlijk zoals op ieder duik onze geliefde Puffer Fish.
Na het duiken is het zorgdragen voor het materiaal. Het moet goed drogen zodat we het overmorgen veilig mee kunnen nemen. We kunnen de spullen laten drogen bij de Duikschool.
Duiken zit er voor deze vakantie weer op.
Vandaag het normale ritueel volgen en morgen gaan voorbereiden van het vertrek.
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[title] => De 5e dag onderwater
[message] => Vandaag gaan we weer naar Catalina Island.
De plek waar mogelijk Manta Roggen zijn.
We zijn weer met 5 duikers en 3 begeleiders.
Voordeel van de 3 begeleiders is, dat wanneer iemand vlug door zijn lucht heen is, 1 begeleider mee omhoog gaat voor de saftey stop en de rest door kan duiken.
Maar goed ook want een van de duikers is na 30 minuten al door zijn lucht heen.
Deze keer hebben we meer geluk bij South Point met de Manta Roggen.
Er komen verschillende Roggen voorbij. Zelfs zo plotseling dat ik te laat ben om een foto te maken.
Het zijn zeer indrukwekkende beesten.
Verder zien we weer een aantal witpunt rif haaien en het nodige ander onderwater leven.
Voor onze 2e duik in de ochtend verlaten we toch Catalina Island en gaan we naar Rainbow Rock.
Hier zouden meer scholen vis zitten en meer kleur variatie.
De scholen vis klopte, de kleuren viel wel mee. Wel een mooie duik met een onverwacht einde.
Voorbij de rots was er een hele vreemde stroming waar het best even werken was. Er was ook heel veel zuurstof in het water waardoor het zicht af en toe 0 was.
Toch weer het nodige onderwater leven mogen aanschouwen.
Na de duik en opruimen van de spullen weer lunchen in ons inmiddels vertrouwde restaurant, CocoNut.
De obers kennen ons inmiddels en onze geliefde tafel is meteen beschikbaar.
Verder de dag weer in de rustmodus. Duiken in de vroege ochtend en 34C rond middaguur vraagt energie.
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[title] => Duikdag 4
[message] => De 4e dag duken in Playas del Coco.
Vandaag zijn we in het totaal met 5 duikers en 3 begeleiders.
Wij bevinden ons in een Europese groep.
Onze Divemaster is een Spaanse. De assistent is Duits. De 3e duiker is een Fransman en wij zijn Nederlands.
De eerste duiksite wordt Estudiantes. Een duik max 18 meter met veel roggen en zelfs schildpadden. Zelf niet gezien maar Ingrid had ze op de film.
Mooie duik, het zicht was iets beter maar nog steeds niet meer dan 10 meter en wazig.
De tweede duik maken we in redelijk ondiep water. Max 12 meter diep maar zeker de moeite waard. Punta Argentina. Een van de bijzondere dingen aan deze duikstek zijn de school Puffer vissen. Heel bijzonder omdat je deze normaal alleen solitair ziet. Verder heel veel schorpioen vissen. Voor de onervaren kijker best een zoekplaatje.
Verder de dag weer buseniss as useul.
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Hiervoor gaan we naar Catalina Island.
De eerste duik is op South Point.
Hier zien we uiteindelijk een paar Manta's. Helaas wat verder weg dus een echt duidelijk foto zat er niet in.
Ook hier viel het zicht erg tegen maar toch fijn gedoken.
De 2e duikstek wordt The Wall, het noordelijke gedeelte van de eilanden groep.
Helaas hier geen Manta's meer maar wel weer een leuke duik.
Na het duiken weer lunchen bij ons inmiddels favoriete plekje. Vandaag was het extra druk tijdens de lunch dus langer wachten op eten.
Rest van de dag rustig aan. Het is momenteel 34gr met een gevoelstemperatuur van tegen de 40gr.
Tijd voor een afkoeling in het zwembad bij het appartement.
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[message] => Vandaag gaan we voor de tweede dag duiken.
Er staan weer 2 duiken op het programma.
We hebben afgesproken dat we om kwart voor 8 aan de kust zijn zodat we niet eerst naar de duikschool hoeven. Scheelt ons dik een half uur.
De eerste duik wordt een diepe duik op "Sorpresa".
Het blijkt vandaag een duik met sterke stroming en slecht zicht te worden. Dat in combinatie met een diepe duik is eigenlijk niet de beste combinatie.
Bij het te water gaan zitten er al veel kleine kwallen in het water. Mooi maar best irritant.
Afdalen langs de ankerlijn anders ben je de rest kwijt.
Voor mij wordt het uiteindelijk geen prettige duik. Ik ga snel door mijn lucht heen en nadat de duikleider besluit om snel naar een andere kant te flipperen schiet ik van 100 Bar naar 50 Bar. Voordat ik aan het opstijgen kan beginnen heb ik nog maar 20 Bar open.
Op een of andere manier wil het niet meer lukken en ga ik samen met 1 Divemaster omhoog en schiet door de Safty-stop heen. Maar goed ook, ik heb no 0 Bar in de fles.
De overige groepsleden komen ook per 2 boven iedere groep op meer dan 50 meter van elkaar af.
Niet wat je noemt het schoolvoorbeeld van een goede duik.
Na een uur boven water volgt de 2e duik op "Tortuga".
Deze duik is in een aanzienlijk rustiger water en max 12 meter diep.
Een heerlijk ontspannen duik met de nodige vis.
Pufferfish, Wit punt Rif Haai, trompetvissen Leopard Ray's en nog veel meer.
Na een klein uurtje weer terug op de boot en daarna weer naar de kant.
Afspraken maken voor morgen omdat we naar de locatie gaan waar mogelijk Manta's zijn.
Daarna lunchen en verder een rustige dag. We hebben zo inspanning genoeg gehad voor vandaag.
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