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More Sloths…
On our first morning shift on the sloth team our alarm went off at 5:30AM (although not strictly needed as we are woken each morning as dawn breaks at around 5AM and from 4:30AM all the nature around is waking up, especially the parrots!). After finishing at 10PM the night before, we made our way…
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Let’s Talk About Sloths
After our short but enjoyable stint on the Animal Team we were able to join the Sloth Team. This was Elizabeth’s main reason for choosing this rescue centre as they have a sloth team dedicated to the rehabilitation of sloths, in particular baby sloths, and releasing them back into the wild as soon as possible.…
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Animal Team – Zones 3 & 4
The morning of day two we’d been assigned to the Animal Team; Elizabeth to Zone 3 and Warwick to Zone 4. Work starts at 07:00 as the animals always come first! We met in the Animal Kitchen and began breakfast prep for our zones, this again involved a lot of chopping of fresh fruit and…
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The Prologue
So how did we get here, and what is going on? We are a British couple, old enough to know better but frequently find that we don’t….or don’t want to 😜 We left the UK at the end of 2011 for Warwick’s work (and Elizabeth took a career break that evolved into something more). We…
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First Day
Very good coffee!!Breakfast for the first day was rice and beans with scrambled eggs. We think fruit is available if we get there for the early breakfast, before work. We completed registration, then had a tour of the site with 5 other new volunteers. It is quite a large site with many different native species,…
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Travel & Arrival: Costa Rica
The day started with an 06:30 taxi to Bedford train station, then a ~2hr train to Gatwick. A quick bag-drop and straight through security. Stopping for a coffee with an amazing table at Wondertree, overlooking the runway and apron, and finding our flight has been delayed by 30 mins, coffee quickly turned into 2nd Breakfast.…
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Here we go!
After months of planning, anticipation, and doubting if it will ever happen – we are off on the next adventure. We left Switzerland at the end of Feb 2023, and made a short tour of the UK visiting the family we could in that time. We booked Costa Rica during that tour and fly out…
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