Tuesday, January 12, 2016

January 6, 2016 - January 12, 2016 - 17 months and 4 weeks

It's so hard to just pick a few photos when you have 300 of them to choose from!!  I did my best…

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We left Monte Verde and headed to "Grampa Ninja's", a B&B, in the small town of Barrance, just outside of Punta Arenas.  Fun spot with rolling farmland hills and pretty cliffs by the beach.  Kadin really liked the pool and the cows.















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We also went to one of my favorite beaches, Playa Doña Ana, where Kadin had his first encounter with the ocean and crashing waves.  Huge smiles and laughs as I held him up in the waves, letting the foaming swell slosh him around.

The Pizote, also known as a Coati - they were at the entrance to the beach.






 As we left the beach, we saw a bunch of Capuchin Monkeys (Mono Carablanca) playing in a wooded grove.  They were about 6 feet from me.  I had to keep Kadin a safer distance away or he would have run off to join them!


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Next, we traveled down the coast to see the crocodiles at the Tarcoles River and then to visit the Carara National Park.  While we were hiking, we had a torrential downpour that lasted about 20 minutes – it was super refreshing considering how overheated we had been earlier that morning!

How many crocodiles do you see??


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We packed up and continued traveling south, to the town of Quepos.  


I taught Kadin how to "toast" with the Spanish phrase, "chin chin".  He loves it!



3 comments:

  1. I found 13 crocodiles. Love all the pics and the places you went are spectacular. IM going to start saying chin chin when I toast too. love it. I love all the pics of Kadin especially the first one.He is so adorable. I love them all. He looks like he had the mosr wonderful adventure with you and Danial. Is that Danial in the pic with the parachute? I would need a lot of liquid encouragment to try it.lol I guess tHe capuchin monkeys and the pezote are friendly and used to people? another favorite pic is Kadin swimming.wonderful memories!!

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  2. That is Danial with the "parachute" – it's actually a paraglider, where you jump off of cliffs and glide around in the wind currents for a while before you land. In the pic, she was just "kiting" on the beach, but later on, she jumped off a cliff…

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    1. Sorry Jenn I don't know any daredevil lingo. lol Did I guess the right number of crocodiles? Did Kadin watch Danial paraglide off the cliff?

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