Tag: The Rescue Center
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The Rice and The Beans…
As anyone who has been to Costa Rica will tell you (and a few people in Switzerland did before we left), you will eat a lot of rice and beans. Gallo Pinto is the name, and it is basically white rice with kidney beans (with seasoning) and is a staple dish for breakfast and possibly…
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What is ‘Slothsitting’?
During our time at The Rescue Center, we focused mostly on working with the Sloths. As we mentioned in the previous Sloth posts, this work also included Slothsitting – and this was the most rewarding, entertaining and certainly our favourite part of the whole Costa Rica trip. The baby sloths (living in their small enclosures…
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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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