"Hello everyone!  What a busy couple of days we’ve had.  Yesterday we had a very active day.  Our zip lining adventure was just incredible.  There were 8 separate zip lines.  All were exciting…. One was 800 feet high!  One was nearly 1/2 mile long!!  The hikes between each were often very athletic… thankfully they had a water break at the halfway point."

"After that excitement we headed to TREES.  This is the Toucan Ridge Ecological and Education Service.  It’s a non government organization that is a non-profit with a conservation focus.  While there we tracked turtles, caught macroinvertebrates and used keys to identify them which then gave us a measurement of water quality for the river that cuts through the TREES property.  We snacked on limes from their trees and fresh sugar cane.  We also used mist netting to catch bats which were identified and measured (and given sugar water as a boost before releasing).  The bat we caught was a juvenile (we looked at the bones and noted spacing between them which only occurs during growth… so the leaf nosed bat was a juvenile 😊)  this was an Incredibly full day of activities and it was insanely hot… so we all went to bed as soon as we got back to our cottages."