Spotting Wildlife on Horseback: Day Long Ecotour In Costa Rica’s Rainforest

A couple traveling together and staying at Crocodile Bay took a day long ecotour on horseback through the Osa Peninsula’s rainforest here are their pictures from their trip.

Relaxing before our ecotour
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Crocodile Bay guests getting ready to leave for day long tour through the rainforest of Corcovado National Park on horseback.

Getting ready to leave for ecotour
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Ecotourist ready to leave for day ride through the Osa Peninsula’s rainforest.

Horseback ecotour through the rainforest
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 Riding through the rainforest…wonder what we’ll see…

Spotting a parrokeet on our ecotour
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Parrot spotted in the forest.

Spotting a Frog on Ecotour
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Spotted frog about to jump the rock.

Spotting a Monkey on our Ecotour
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 Spotted monkey in a tree.

Post-Ecotour
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Settling back at camp after a long day through the rainforest.

Sportfishing Calendar

January

Tuna, marlin and dorado taper off. Number of sailfish begins to increase.

February

Prime time for sailfish. Occassional marlin, tuna or dorado.

March

Prime time for sailfish.

April

Sailfish numbers drop mid-April and some marlin begin to appear.

May

Slower for billfish. Typically we start seeing schools of spinner dolphins with yellowfin tuna.

June

Slower for billfish. Spinner dolphins with yellowfin tuna.

July

Marlin begin to appear. A chance for black marlin as well as blues and striped marlin. A chance for tuna.

August

Marlin and tuna.

September

Slower for billfish. A chance for tuna and dorado.

October

Dorado begin to appear in numbers with marlin close behind.

November

A mixed bag of dorado, marlin and some big tuna.

December

Marlin, dorado, tuna and sailfish are all possibilities.