Adventure is not outside man, but within, for you cannot cross the sea by simply staring at the water.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Costa Rica's Corcovado National Park
Corcovado National Park (Parque Nacional Corcovado) is on the Osa Peninsula in the southwest Costa Rica. It was established in 1975, spans 263 square miles, and is widely considered the crown jewel in Costa Rica's extensive system of national parks and biological reserves spread across the country. The park conserves the largest primary forest on the American Pacific coastline and one of the few remaining sizeable areas of lowland tropical rain forests in the world. No roads travel to the park, so boat is your only option.
Here are two of the birds we saw just to whet your appetite. Below these next two photos is the video containing the boat ride down the Sierpe River and then along the Pacific Coast to the park, and our hike in the jungle forest and seashore.
Here's a video of our boat ride to the park and our jungle hike in the park, including numerous flora and fauna sightings and with explanations by our naturalist guide, Daniel.
The Costa Rican National Capoeira team demonstrated their competitive abilities in a world-class demonstration for the public. With grace and movements that you have to see to really appreciate, these young competitors impressed everyone. For more information visit here: http://www.costaricaviews.com/costa-rican-national-capoeira-team/
Featuring Chuck's adventures in Nature, adventures with family and friends, adventures in music, and adventures with words.
============================ Nothing adventured, nothing gained! ============================ The older I get, the better I was! ============================ Like G. B. Shaw, I want to be all used up when I die! ============================ I want to die young at an advanced age. ============================ A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. - John Barrymore ============================
Now voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find. --Walt Whitman
Every journey has to end, and the end of the journey is always called Home. --Nelson DeMille
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list. --Susan Sontag
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. --Frank Lloyd Wright
It's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly understood; an inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. --G.K. Chesterton The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. - -Chinese Proverb =============================
You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
Isaiah 55:12 (New International Version)
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
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Photos exemplifying my love for the outdoors and some of my adventures in pursuit of that passion:
Mountain biking in Florida's Ocala National Forest
Climbing wall
Zipline jungle canopy tour in Jamaica
Rafting Wyoming's Snake River
Des Plaines River Canoe Marathon
Climbing Window Arch in Canyon de Chelly
Atop Great Sand Dunes NP
Atop Uncompahgre Peak (14,309 feet)
Surfing at Waikiki
Rapelling in Arizona
Backpacking in Bob Marshall Wilderness
Arkansas mountain biking
Digging new trail tread for Kentucky's Pine Mountain Trail
Sea kayaking Acadia National Park near Bar Harbor, Maine
Nailing decking on SC's Palmetto Trail fifteen feet above the Wateree Swamp
Driving a 6 wheel drive ATV on trail project in Michigan's Hiawatha NF
Riding in Arkansas
Rafting Wesser Falls on North Carolina's Nantahala River
Snorkeling the green slime of Florida's Orange Grove Sink spring
Digging new trail tread for Tennessee's Cumberland Trail during hunting season (orange outfit)
Mountain biking in Arkansas
Driving the houseboat on Lake Powell
Canoeing 125 miles down Utah's Green River
Rafting Bull Sluice on the Chattooga River
Kayaking 145 miles of the Mississippi River
Horseback riding in Mexico's Copper Canyon
Volunteer trail project in Arizona's high desert
Biking in one of Chicagoland's many forest preserves
Backpacking a North Carolina segment of the AT
4-wheelin' Colorado's high country with the Xterra Owners Club
Exploring slot canyon in Glen Canyon/Lake Powell
Village SIngers of Lake Zurich performance -- only time I've played banjo in a tux!
Hiking glacier in Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
Backpacking Alaska's Denali State Park
Trail bridge we built in Utah's Manti-LaSal National Forest
Section of stairs we built for Cape Cod National Seashore
Kayaking Labyrinth Canyon in Lake Powell
Bridge we built for South Carolina's Palmetto Trail
On a volunteer trail project in Kentucky, I took a tree down, and on its way down, it took me down and sent me the the ER. What an adventure that was!
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The Costa Rican National Capoeira team demonstrated their competitive abilities in a world-class demonstration for the public. With grace and movements that you have to see to really appreciate, these young competitors impressed everyone. For more information visit here: http://www.costaricaviews.com/costa-rican-national-capoeira-team/
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