Rainsong

Tomorrow is my last full day here at Fundacion Santuario Silvestre de Osa. On friday I am catching the noon flight into San Jose. From there I will be going to Hotel Cortez Azul. I am spending the night there and catching a shuttle to Rainsong at 6 am the following morning.
Quite honestly, I'm not feeling terribly reflective right now. At some point I hope I can write about my experience here in retrospect. I haven't been in much of a blog-writing mood in this past week or so. I just feel it is due time for a post however short it may be.

It was nice to see Maria even though she was only here for three days really. The other two volunteers are wonderful. Probably in their mid 20's? All in all they plan on being in Costa Rica for 3 months. They spent their first week in Puerto Jimenez working for some dude. Can't remember exactly what they did. But they tired quickly of that and came here after hearing about this sanctuary. Matt is a great cook! mmmmm. His girlfriend is also incredibly nice as is he. They have been great company and it was just really bad timing. They plan on being here for about a month. Sweetie has taken quite a liking to him. In quite an odd way. She is incredibly possessive over him. She will get very aggressive if someone else touches him or acts aggressive towards him when she is around.

Today we moved little Joey, our baby kinkajou, into a large cage with Marta, our older kinkajou. They seem to be getting along quite well in fact. Not that much is known about them so we didn't really know what to expect when putting them together. One publication says they are social animals while another says solitary. One says polygamist and one says monogamous.
In Spanish these guys are called 'Martilla'. It means hammer. Claws of the hammer. These little guys can shred open green coconuts. Carnivores, but they are adapted to be frugavores. Used to be called a primate. No. It can collapse it's palm, but it cannot do the thumb to index finger action that you must be able to do in order to be a primate. So they are in the same family as raccoon and coatis. I really could go on and on about these guys. I have a whole speech for every animal that I use for my tours.

This here is Joey---right after he peed on me.

And here is Marta. Incredibly cute, but take a look at those claws.

We also got an owl recently that had gotten hit by a car. His right eye is worthless. Definitely can't see out of it, but it doesn't seem to be infected though.

I took quite a few great pictures a few days ago. Unfortunately they were on Maria's camera and she left before I had a chance to upload them from her camera

I am going to go now, but as soon as I get a chance I will update with how Rainsong Wildlife Sanctuary is. According to the website there is wireless access at the sanctuary. But if I have learned that here in Costa Rica, that can mean absolutely nothing. This is the country, afterall, that not even the phone company will pick up their phone when you call.