Last full day at Hacienda La Pacifica

We booked an extra tour this morning, another boat tour in an area called Palo Verde. It’s hot, and the boat tours are not very strenuous, and are a good way to see the other side of birds that you can’t get from walking along the stream. Mike particularly wanted to see a boat-billed heron since we missed it on the Taroles river. Our guide picked us up at the civilized time of 6:30, and we spotted a limpkin while we walked from our room to reception to meet him.

As we went to the river, we filled him in on our target birds, which also included the social flycatcher.

It was a great morning.  We saw all our target birds and more. We even got a close-up view of a Jesus lizard, so-called because it runs on water. I didn’t realize how big they were.  When we see them running they look small, but on the shore, it looked quite large.  We also saw another group of long nosed bats.

Here are the photos.

Oh, I forgot to mention the southern lapwing and another crocodile.

We got back to the hotel, rested up a bit and had another great meal. Mike had the fried red snapper and Chris had a chicken breast with passionfruit sauce.

For dessert, we had dragonfruit, vanilla, coconut, and mango ice cream.

We ended the day with a walk around the property to find birds, but only really found howler monkeys.