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Campanario Biological Station, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

3/17/2019

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We have just returned from Campanario Biological Station in southwestern Costa Rica.  One extremely nice place to stay and study things run by the most amazing Nancy Aitken.  I want to thank Nancy right up front for all the hospitality and help with our bat cave work and making the whole trip work out so well.  And as a side note, the food is so good there that as a caver one might start to worry about adding a few pounds and not fitting through everything they used to if you stay too long.

I can't write a whole description of the place, but you may visit their website to learn more about this field station

https://www.campanario.org/

We took a boat out of Sierpe, down through the mangroves along the river, and out into the Pacific ocean.  Bit of rough water right where the river meets the sea, but our boat captain circled until he saw a gap in the wave pattern and got us through with minimal bashing about.  Kudos to him, as he really knows how to read the water.

At Campanario it is a wet landing, as in there is no dock they just back the boat up to the black sand beach and you jump out.

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Unloading people and gear at the Campanario beach, Costa Rica
Mostly all this is stuff chucked on your shoulder or hand carried to dry ground.  For some reason Don seems to have thought this was a luxury tourist resort and, well, ended up trawling his wheeled luggage across the sand.
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McFarlane and the sandy wheels
The Station itself I can not do justice to in a photo.  It maintains a small footprint with maximum usefulness, so pretty unassuming when seen from the beach.  But oh yeah, they've got it all worked out very nicely and working here was super easy.  And did I mention that the food was amazing?  
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Campanario Biological Station as seen from the beach at low tide.
And it didn't take long to see some wildlife.  This red-tailed squirrel was bopping around in the trees beside the Station and cute as can be.  Things were now in place to spend a couple days figuring out the nearby bat cave and hiking some trails to see some wildlife.
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Red-tailed squirrel at the Campanario Biological Station, Costa Rica
My internet has been pretty iffy but that squirrel photo looks great in my files but terrible here to me.  I'll check and upload it again later.
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