Pozo Azul in La Virgen

Poison arrow frog: don't eat with your hands after touch them. If the poison on their skin gets to your blood, you die.

The frog's camo isn't as effective in hand. 

Rigel balancing on the rocks under a waterfall near the Poca Azul site.

The road towards La Virgen was a bit hilly and hot in the morning but by the afternoon it had started to cloud over again. Its great riding weather when it's cloudy without the wet part. Another group of cyclists Maggie had been in touch with recommended La Virgen for the hikes and camping so we decidd to spend a few nights there. We found an adventure company called Pozo Azul and they let us camp for free under one of their big sheds. The property used to be a cattle ranch so it has tons of space for use.
The next day Rigel, Maggie and Bryan went on a nature hike, and saw a ton of poison arrow frogs, little brown frogs that looked like leaf litter, a fer de lance snake, Puma tracks, toucans, macaws, and many other animals. They also saw walking ferns and swam at a nice waterfall in the middle of the hike. Our guide, Max was very good - he would stop and say "smell that? A wild boar is nearby." Or "listen!" and then start clicking his fingers and a bird in the bush would respond with a similar click and start excitedly flitting back and forth in the bush.
 I stayed at our camp and worked on my bike and some of my stuff that needed repairs. We cooked all our meals and were invited to use the food in the garden as well. The garden had surprising things like ginger, star fruit, black pepper corn vines, and some more typical things like sugar cane, tomato, green onions, cabbage, yucca root, oranges, guava, papaya trees, and some hot peppers like a red bonnet pepper or maybe a cayenne. For the second day we went on a rafting trip down the Rio Sarapiqui for $150 for all four of us. We saw howler monkeys and walls of fern on the river's edge. It was a lot of fun on the rapids much like being on the Little Saskatchewan with inflatables.

From left, Erin, Bryan, and Maggie. During the rafting trip down the Sarapiqui river.

Erin inspecting the scene on a suspension bridge during our short night hike.

Poison arrow frog wandred into our camping area during one of the fierce rains.