(Note: I read on
the internet that the park is closed on Mondays so we may not be able to
do the activities we wanted to. I am sure we will
find something to do!).jpg)
Well we had a great breakfast and then decided to go to the shop where our guide to the forest worked and booked a canopy tour. We then went back to the hotel and decided to relax and sunbath at the pool before being picked up by the tour company in the early afternoon.
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There were seven of us on the tour. Barbara was
the only woman! One man was from Canada, two from Chicago
and two from of all places, Costa Rica!
We had a great time and our lead guide was named "Monkey" and had a great sense of humor. We were buckled in and then put on steel cables, some as long as 300 meters and over 200 foot gorges.
Can
you imagine, here I am, coming in for a three point
landing! Going on 66 and still doing what I want
to! Barbara did a great job. In the morning she
suddenly, after writing to me every week for two months, decided
maybe to go horse back riding. I said, "In place of
what?" I said 
we should go do the cables through the
trees as this was the place to do it and we might never
have another chance. She agreed and we both were glad we did
it! I had one of the men from Chicago take my camera and he
was able to take two shots of me on the cables, a long shot on the
300 meter one and this close up!
We also were lucky enough to see the poisonous frogs named dendrobates auratus dart frogs! We saw one at the base of a tree and half way through the canopy tour, we saw three of them hopping around the base of another tree. We checked them out but didn't get too close!
We were lucky as the afternoon was great and then around six PM as we were taking a slight nap before dinner, the rain pounded on the roof but did we care? Of course not, three days of sun shine in Manuel Antonio and this was our last night so we enjoyed the rain and had a nice dinner at the hotel with a pre-dinner cocktail and wine with dinner.
A nice way to finish the day after a stressful but fun time doing the zip-line in the canopy of the trees!