After a long drive with the car, a longboat, a truck, a tractor and finally a horse we arrived in Soki, along the way we bio-monitored 4 tributaries of the Rio Uren (River).
With all the friendly indigenous people it felt a bit like being in Indonesia again. The people asked questions like; ¨How tall are you, how much do you weigh¨ and ¨Tell me about your country¨.
After they discovered the thing I was carrying was not a binocular but a camera they wanted their picture taken for a family album. It was funny to see them look so seriously in the lens.
The Sixaola River
Longboat (made out of one single tree)
Truck
Tractor
Horse
Soki
Rio Uren
Cloud forest
Hammock Where did you wake up this morning?
Everywhere in Costa Rica they play soccer, here it´s the Soki girls taking on the Soki boys.
Soki girl
Soki family picture
Very long! wobbly bridge
Rio Uren
Whole comunity comes out to see what´s happening.
Fishing (high res.)
Kid fishing
Fish identification, we had about 700 fish, 15 species, in about 100m divided up in 8 samples this time.
Data
Afterwards the usual habitat assessment.
Breakfast
Dinner
Cooking on wood, no gas or electricity here.
In category animales this time:
The Office Alien
And the local loco.
Back home in the office...
So, you´re happy to survive all this (and actually another 3 day trip earlier) and are glad to make it home safely, you´re sitting behind your computer while meanwhile somebody is landing a tree that luckily got caught on the side branches of another tree instead of sliding off the branches and crashing into my roof. Lucky to be alive!
Beyond that everybody except me has been sick for some days and at the same time there was a good swell. I got to surf a lot and at the peak of the swell I had my best session ever! Riding wave after wave for 4 hours untill I just couldn´t lift my arms any more. I had my best waves ever that sunday. The longest and fastest rides untill now. The few other people that were also in the water at Playa Negra that day were all so stoked like me. We were cheering for each other, laughing, riding wave after wave, almoust getting barreld, unbeleiveble feeling, couldn´t stop smiling for days.
Wednesday mas aventuras! We go out again for 5 days...
Pura vida!
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