Tag: hiking
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A Day in Golfo Dulce-Costa Rica
The morning begins with a border crossing. A small boat approaches, spilling out a group of agents who board our Uncruise ship. The agents are quick and efficient, and soon, we are stamped out of Panama, and stamped into Costa Rica. Since the border crossing takes up a little extra time in the morning, our…
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Morning on Coiba Island-Panama
We are up at sunrise, and what a spectacular sunrise it is. We’re not avid bird watchers, more avid animal of any kind watchers, so when the opportunity arises to go on a bird watching hike, it sounds like the makings of a wonderful morning. Light continues to seep into the sky as our skift…
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Exploring Isla Iguana-Panama
The morning is filled with excitement, as we board the skift, eager for our first off ship adventure. With Jenny as our guide, our skift cruises around the shore of Isla Iguana, an island, wildlife refuge, in Panama. As red throated frigates circle overhead, Jenny imparts information regarding their nesting and mating habits. As we…
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My Panama/Costa Rica Hiking Triumph
They didn’t know, Erika, Jenny, Rey and especially Liza (we did the most hikes with Liza). Our guides, didn’t know how nervous I was at the start of the week. I wanted to hike. I had worked hard so that I could hike, but I was still worried that hiking would cause an episode. An…
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Hiking at Chautauqua Park
I already wrote a previous post about how this ended up being an important, significant, hike. A life altering hike in fact, so I won’t go into all of that again. Since our last meal was sometime late afternoon the previous evening, we knew we needed some fuel before hiking. We saw a Starbucks, and…