Day 3 in the mountains - Feb. 25th

Today we didn't get up as early because the trail we were going to take this morning wasn't very far from our cabin.  We went out on the trail after breakfast.  This trail has 3 hanging bridges along the route and the hike is fairly easy and through really nice forest.

There is a tree in the middle of one of the bridges with a platform and that's where Eva is in this picture.  Ooooh, there were lots of little biting insects while we were on this platform.

We did the bridges trail in the morning, went into the town of Bijagua to have pizza for lunch and then went back out on the bridges trail in the early afternoon.  Our prize sighting when we were on the trail in the evening was a Kinkajou!!  It was too far away for me to get a good picture, but here is a picture Guillermo took of us excitedly either watching the Kinkajou or taking a picture of it.

It was a nice leisurely hike that evening and when we were done with the trail, we walked along a little road near the Heliconias hotel to see what we could see along that road.  We DID see a Toucan near that road and the clouds in the distance were really impressive.  We had NO idea that we were seeing the beginnings of a prolonged rain heading our way.

The picture above was taken from the road by the hotel.  When we got back to the cabin, we could see the clouds really building everywhere.  The evening before we had watched the rain passing by way off in the distance and we watched the same thing this evening except all of a sudden we couldn't see into the distance anymore and we realized that the rain was probably headed our way.  And sure enough, we could hear the rain falling hard in the distance and pretty soon it was right on us.  It rained on and off very hard and when there was a good break, we got in the car and drove back into Bijagua to have dinner.  The rest of the evening and all through the night it rained sometimes quite hard and the wind was also very strong.