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A rare leaf orchid from the cloudforests of South America. Photographed at Chester zoo botanical collection.
Monteverde cloudforest, Costa Rica. Most of the mosture reach the forest as clouds, mist and fog rather than rain. This is a habitat with a huge bio diversity e.g 100 mammal species, 400 birds and 420 orchids species
Erotylid fungus beetle(s) from on or near my cloud forest property in Cosanga, Napo, Ecuador (eastern slope of the Andes), 2,100 meters elevation.
ok... so this image is of one of the waterfalls at mindo. The panoramic kinda stitched wrong but I think its interesting. We are standing on a platform about 7 meters out of the water. Its close to a 3 story jump, you can see a platform on the otherside of the river, its pretty much the same hieght. Because of the nature of this image... its hard to tell how high it was. I've done higher so it wasn't that bad of a jump, but the cool part was jumping into a waterfall, because the water really can push your body around. I'm the only one who hit bottom, but just barely, but I'm kinda glad I did, because the other two had a hard time getting their heads out of the water. The current of the waterfall really pulls you under. Ali's second jump was a little scary because she didn't come up for about 5 seconds, so we decided to quite there. Overall this was one of the highlights of my trip (exploring and jumping all the waterfalls in mindo).
A scarce orchid from the cloudforests of South America. Photographed at Chester zoo botanical collection.
Monteverde cloudforest, Costa Rica. Most of the mosture reach the forest as clouds, mist and fog rather than rain. This is a habitat with a huge bio diversity e.g 100 mammal species, 400 birds and 420 orchids species
Monteverde cloudforest, Costa Rica. Most of the mosture reach the forest as clouds, mist and fog rather than rain. This is a habitat with a huge bio diversity e.g 100 mammal species, 400 birds and 420 orchids species
“The wildlife and plants of Costa Rica were so beautiful we wanted to see it all.”
Rudy M.
photo credit: Kim Lysne