We, Dwight and Rachel Crandell, are heading south June 19th with a great group of adventurer/ learners. Our destination is the Children’s Eternal Rainforest in Monteverde, Costa Rica. A full two weeks of hiking with biologists, journaling, photographing, and doing solos in the forest.

Our expert guides include the top biologists in their field. Dr. Richard LaVal will take us mist-netting at night to catch bats and collect data. Richard is the author of his lifelong culminating work, A Field Guide to the Bats of Costa Rica. Mark Wainwright takes us on night hikes and collects endemic frogs from the streams inside our 54,000 acre wilderness. Mark is the author of A Natural History of the Mammals of Costa Rica. Dr. Federico Chinchilla will mist net birds and explain migratory patterns, nesting habits, and courtship behavior in birds who form leks to attract females.

Adventures that will fill our days: Hiking in the San Luis Valley to the 200′ tall waterfall with a swim in the COLD pool, visiting an organic coffee farm, watching Arenal Volcano erupt, attending Quaker Meeting (the root of the history of Monteverde), climbing up inside a 100′ tall strangler fig tree, rafting the Corobici River, visiting a local school to donate school supplies and play soccer with the kids, planting trees in a reforestation project, visiting local women in their homes who belong to the artists cooperative, learning about orchids, butterflies, reptiles, and walking suspension bridges above the canopy of the forest.

We culminate with an experience at Las Pumas Wild Cat Refuge and time with Miguel, a Cabecar Indian, at his Arbofilia Foundation.

Sound like fun? There are just 3 openings left for a similar adventure July 30-Aug 12.
Write us at info@mclus.org to see if you can come.

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