The marine life in the National Park

Uvita consists mainly of 3-4 restaurants and a supermarket on the "main street" and then go two parallel street two gravel roads to the beach where you will find more hostels and restaurants. Why Uvita is worth a visit in any case, you will certainly understand after these photos.

The surrounding Marinenationalpark Ballena is known for its humpback whales, dolphins and turtles, which of course are all not easy to sift through. Nevertheless, we started with full optimism as our half-day boat tour and see, we were lucky. We sighted a humpback whale mother with her about 6 weeks of age. Full-grown humpback whales can grow up to 15 feet long, they are a protected species and are known for their whale song.

They spend the winter in tropical or subtropical waters and in the summer they migrate to the poles.

It is extremely difficult to photograph the large marine mammals because they only briefly appear approximately every 10-15 minutes and then usually only the dorsal fin can be seen. Thus we could use 3-4 made of about 30 photos just.

Equally difficult to photograph the dolphins, this. Due to the speed Thank God they are a bit more sociable than the whales and came to our boat to front of the bow herzuschwimmen.

There was a group of about 10 Slim dolphins, which are up to 2.5 meters long and weigh up to 115 kg. You are Waymarked by their spots on the back.

The rest of the boat ride was very scenic and in glorious weather, it can be on the water anyway endure. Although we are not really encountered while snorkeling on interesting sea creatures that cooling was more than located.

The waterfall near Uvita

After this rather hot morning and a delicious lunch, we took a taxi to 2 km distant waterfall to cool us there again.

Here, of course, all around cavort also all kinds of insects, but do not worry, the spider was further away than it appears in the photo ....

On the way back we were still the great light of the evening hours to take advantage of all the beauty of this landscape to enjoy. Even after more than a week in Costa Rica, we have not yet set us apart in the vegetation, time and again we discover new plants and animals ......! To be continued ....