Corr Vaca Costa Rica Trip Pictures (Feb-2010)
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Alvarro and Luis at the airport pick us up
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Mel, Denise, Robin, and Merlene
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Susan and Denise - First day lunch at Bougainvillea Hotel
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Merlene and Robin at lunch - note only Coke Light, no Diet Coke!
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Bette and Mel waiting for their lunch
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Garden of Bougainvillea hotel - local wildlife about to carry Corrie away!
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Christina and Mel trying out their cameras on the bougainvilleas
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A passion flower trying to pretend to be a bougainvillea for the picture
takers!
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Interesting prickly flower - hard petals?
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Same unknown flower - rooms similar to our's upstairs in the background
and Conference center on the right
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unknown bulb-type flower - in orchid-type formations
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Corrie getting a closer look at the flowers
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Corrie and Harriet posing like proper tourists
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Harriet and Christine getting the point of the vegetation
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Interesting palette of texture and colors - does anyone get the point?
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Now this is Really to the point! Lots of them on these thistle-like plant
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Christine, Lavetta, and Harriet checking out the thistle-like plant
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Graceful small-sized Heleconia
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hard to get the details in focus
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That's more like it - focused
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Enough now!
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Yellow puffball? Anyone know?
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Our resident monkey goes after the bananas
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A xxxxx lily?
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Hanging ear-ring flower
More hanging ear-ring flower
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Details of the ear-rings
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See, what did I say, the ear-ring flowers!
Actually a type of Euphorbia?
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Lots of Euphorbia, focused and not focused
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Deana wishing she had some ear-rings from this place in the garden
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Harriet checking out the sword-fish plant
Probably not the right name....
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lots of textures...
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View from room 210
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Stolen Hibiscus (no ransom was offered tho)
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Alvaro models for us - very pretty Alvaro!
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Catie Botanical Research Garden in Turrialba
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Alvaro and our garden guide telling us about the garden
(when,why,what,...)
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Robin, Susan, Merlene, Christina paying attention
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Our guide about to eat this berry?
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Glue berry tree - guess he was not really going to eat a Glue berry!
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But, he wanted us really to eat this plant?
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Does this look edible to you?
Definitely an aquired taste, we all agreed
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Now for something different: A Pink Banana
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Nope, this is nothing to do with the pink banana....
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The pink banana peels itself (no longer pink!)
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Waiting for the birds to eat and spread their business around
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We were Not asked to eat these!
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Awesome bamboo - Robin shows the scale
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and shoots us gawking at the bamboo
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No, it's not a Heleconia, it is a kind of Strelitsia?
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Or maybe not - but very interesting flowers
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Our guide is not here to ask.
We don't even know the flower he is holding here!
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a spicy pod (very technical term!) - colored like Saffron - and stained
our clothes - bit peppery to the taste
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These are Not berries - dark-purple-blue-glowing flowers
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This is not what you think - it grows flowers from the wrong place!
But I don't remember what it is called right now...
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Just look at all the leaves!
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Edible miniature pineapple (not many mouthfuls there)
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Beautiful inflorescence
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Stink plant
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Don't know the name, but it IS a flower, that eats bugs/small creatures
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Come inside my pretty... and we will rot you!
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Note the fluid channels in the cut-off stems
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The flower grows separately from the main stem, and straight from the
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Unknown pretty flower (about 6 inches across) grows directly from the
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and has no stem of its own.
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Cannonball tree - used in the famous Costa Rica War of 1066??
actually eaten by some animals, but too hard for us humans
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Alvaro and the Balsa tree
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Tree taking hostages
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Two more hostages
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Everyone gets taken (except Robin who escaped!)
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Scottish Chimney Sweep Flower - So Serious Christine!
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That's better.
It is actually Shampoo Ginger
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He loves me, he love me not, ...
A Gerber Daisy talking to Harriet while the Gardener looks on
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Star Fruit close-up
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The tree where stars are born!
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These are tastier than the ones in the stores at home
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Expensive Star Fruit rotting on the ground
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Anthuriums
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Large and unusual color
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Gardener showing off specimens from the green house.
All gingers
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The bloom of the Heleconia is the little green bit, not the colorful
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This orchid only blooms for 1 day (we didn't check back the next day, but
that is what he said!)
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Lunch with Bette, Corrie, Pat, and Christina
Overlooking the valley on the way back from Turrialba
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All local fare - plantains, refried black beans, deep-fried plantains,
small tortillas, local sauteed veggies, local jalapenos, and Coke Light
(locally canned at least!)
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More food...(actually the same food)
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The sun is bright - so a solution rides by - and Deana goes window
shopping
the vendor manages to keep his bike along side the bus in traffic!
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Spider - bit hard to see
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Now you see him better - now lunch yet for the spider
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Orchids standing out from the shade
The flower seems cooler than we were
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Corrie feeling the length and smooth texture of the root supports
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these trees fall over easily and often - so the external root system gives
support when they hit the ground
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Else Botanic Garden
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Corrie's crest - the water bottle (refilled from the tap - good water) was
really useful in the heat.
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"Spike" the Yucca making his points!
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Ginger flower
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Quiet little Oriental meditation garden in the distance
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Robin monkeying around
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A close-up of the animal
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Me Jane!
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Corrie, are you done hanging around?
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Papyrus growing along the stream
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pretty flowers...
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This is where they grow spare arms...
Ginger new plants growing from the stem
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Just a tree - poetry in the sky
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pin cushions?
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Bananas, but no monkeys...
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pretty trunk texture
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Poro tree - used to put nitrogen back into the ground in coffee
plantations
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stream in the gardens
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Still don't know what these are...
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Nope, not even now
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