Una guía, con una parafernalia inevitable para llevarse las propinas de los turistas, llama con el walki a su compañero pidiéndole que le identifiquen dónde podemos ver el desove de las tortugas. “¿Sector?, repeat, ¿sector?”, dice por el walki. “Parece que hemos podido ver a una en el sector doce”, responden desde el otro lado tras unos segundos de emoción contenida en los que se escuchan alguna risas por lo sobreactuado del momento. Es de noche. No se ve a un palmo, la noche es cerrada y caminamos entre el Caribe, que queda a la izquierda, y el río Tortuguero, que queda a la derecha. It is forbidden to take pictures of leatherback turtles, now protected by the blessing of the dollar. "Beware, could see a jaguar ". In order, at this point in the comic book and do not care to announce the guide that may appear Elvis Pressley.
We got the industry 12 and, suddenly, The guide aims his red light pointer and see a huge turtle sand back, from the water. Start spawn barely three feet from us, first digging a big hole in the sand. The huge moon helps to see a scene that awes. Suddenly, I look left and right, and see other huge leatherback sea or by tracing back the beach. Spectra seem to crawl at night. Equal performance for tourists, that moment is unforgettable, real. We see our friend lays eggs, cover the nest sentenced to death and march back to the sea. Dogs, as other animals, crawled to the beach the next morning and unearthed and will eat most of the eggs. Only one percent of the hundreds of eggs that have been deposited on the beach tonight again ten years later to make way their ancestors pendulum. Scavengers eat the eggs or expect at birth which also awaits in the waters a troop of hungry sharks. But, there is always the option that plastic bags are thrown into the sea by man which end their life: eat them thinking they are jellyfish, his favorite food, and drown.
There is also a small Indian community that failed to include the turtle on the menu, not without a lot of education and difficulties, as it was the main source of food to the people, when they understood that they would care for money for tourists.
Watching in silence as these copies are the leatherback sea, as if the body just could with her weight, is an unforgettable (and I was lucky to see in Mexico the reverse, viewing the dozens of turtles born one night and marched into the sea protected by a large team of American volunteers).
Just watch the spawning, Tortuguero deserves a place in our section on Saturdays in nature. But the national park is a huge river of impenetrable jungle simply spectacular. There is also a small Indian community that failed to include the turtle on the menu, not without a lot of education and difficulties, as it was the main source of food to the people, when they understood that they would care for money for tourists. You can go there at night to eat something and even have a drink and then canoe back to sleep.
Waking up in Tortuguero are not classified as particularly easy when with the first rays you hear a rush of fruit, released by howler monkeys in the trees, falling like a bombing on the roof of the hotel room. Their cries echo through the forest with the flush of the night. It's a wild roar of. Then one can see 405 different types of birds, the famous colored frogs, lazy and large crocodiles, among other fauna. In fact, that morning at the lagoon uproar. Several boats with local people with sticks remove water. What are you looking?, I tell our paddler. "Last week a child was attacked by a crocodile. What killed, But crocodiles lay their prey underwater to írselo eating slowly while your body rots. Long ago there was an attack ", answer. The sentence says. We're leaving behind a scene that shows the reality of wildlife.
The walk along the river is fascinating, hear the heavy nature of a rain forest full of green, animals can start looking after the movements of the limbs. In this tropical park download hard rain in the afternoon most of the year. Caribbean storm soon after the sun shine again. The dry season is between March and April. We climbed a hill from which to contemplate the double language of the river and the sea. The heat is so stifling as spectacular is the setting. A place for nature lovers.
