Hacienda Barú

Hacienda Barú is an ecotourism lodge just north of Dominical on the Pacific coast. Here we visited swamp forests, mangrove forests, and a wild Pacific beach.

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playing catch with a cannonball-sized megafaunal fruit from the tree Crescentia cujete

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halloween crab (Gecarcinus quadratus) on a night walk down to the beach

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sun hats and a Cecropia tree  

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Cherrie’s Tanager (aka the red-ass tanager) having a snack

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ctenosaurs were common here, and also at Palo Verde

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arboreal primate spotted in the mangrove forest

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prop roots of red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle), and a floating coconut

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Gigi and Katie enjoying our hike through the mangrove mud

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