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Drenched Exit
In the early afternoon, after collecting the memory cards from the camera traps, Rebeca, Aster and I went through the footage. For each...

Dan Short
Jan 4, 20207 min read
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An Isthmus Rabbit Hole
The rain continued long into the next day. With little work we could do in such heavy rain, I made us both an experimental breakfast. A...

Dan Short
Jan 1, 20204 min read
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Squabbling Bats
Following another hard day of work, I sat on the upstairs of the main building just to relax and watch the wildlife in the garden. I...

Dan Short
Dec 28, 20192 min read
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Close Encounter
Aster and I had a bit of a rest the next day. I went through some of my footage from the past few days deleting a lot of the redundant...

Dan Short
Dec 21, 20194 min read
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A Frog's Life
We took our one day off for the week. We went for a swim in the waterfall. I spotted a tapir print on the trail on the way down. Each...

Dan Short
Dec 18, 20195 min read
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The Night Walk
The next day, we started work on the trail. This essentially involved a lot of raking and cutting away of the branches and plants that...

Dan Short
Dec 15, 20193 min read
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Trek to the shop
Rather than waking up at the crack of dawn again the next morning, we both woke up at about 6:30, had the usual breakfast of rice and...

Dan Short
Dec 11, 20194 min read
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The Stake-out
After the third helping of rice and beans in 24 hours, we worked tirelessly in the garden having felt bad for relaxing for most of the...

Dan Short
Dec 9, 20194 min read
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First day in Tamandua
Waking up the next day, for the first time deep in a jungle like this, was an amazing feeling, if not a bit of a sensory overload. Still...

Dan Short
Dec 6, 20193 min read
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Arriving in the Osa Peninsula
The Osa Peninsula was the one place that lived up most to my expectations of what Costa Rica would be like most. It's a very remote,...

Dan Short
Dec 4, 20197 min read
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Santa Marta: Elephant Graveyard
To get to Santa Marta, a fishing town turned surfing town on the other side of Cabo Blanco, I got the earliest bus out of Montezuma at...

Dan Short
Nov 25, 20194 min read
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Cabo Blanco
The next morning I woke up to find that brown pelicans nested in the trees in the hostel that sat closest to the sea. They took off, back...

Dan Short
Nov 16, 20197 min read
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It Begins: Montezuma
After a pleasantly smooth flight to mexico city and transfer to San Jose from a crisp and cold autumnal day in the UK, stepping out of...

Dan Short
Nov 13, 20192 min read
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