Taking a Photo Tour of a Wildlife Sanctuary and Botanical Garden in the Osa Peninsula

A Crocodile Bay guest shares photos of his tour of a botanical garden and the Osa Wildlife Sanctuary in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula.

Botanical Garden
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 Botanical Garden

monkey crossing the street
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Monkey Crossing

Exotic Flowers
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Unusual Botanical Garden Flower

Beautiful Botanical Garden Flower
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 Botanical Garden Beauty

Tourist holding a monkey
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Vacationer holding a baby monkey on Crocodile Bay tour of Osa Wildlife Sanctuary

Botanical Garden Path
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 Botanical Garden Path

Baby Collared Anteater
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Baby Collared Anteater

 Tilapia Bananas
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 Tilapia Bananas

 Caterpillar
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 Caterpillar…What A Beauty

Scarlet Macaws
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Scarlet Macaws

Rare Orange Exotic Flowers
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Rare Orange Beauties… More Exotic Flowers

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.