PLAYA OSTIONAL, Guanacaste – By 7 p.m., it is already impossibly dark to read the signs on buildings. Every 100 meters or so, a singular yellow street lamp illuminates a small, dim area of the dirt ...
Sea foam laps the shore as the sun rises over the ocean. It’s 5 a.m. on a calm, beautiful morning, but the residents of Ostional aren’t out to enjoy a leisurely walk on the beach – they’re hard at ...
Every month at Costa Rica’s Ostional National Wildlife Refuge, tens to hundreds of thousands of female sea turtles arrive, often within a few days of each other, to lay their eggs on the beach. “I ...
Hundreds of ignorant tourists crowded nesting site of olive ridley sea turtles in Costa Rica and acted inappropriately, even putting kids on turtle for photos. Tourists behave badly, disrupting the ...
(MENAFN- Costa Rica News) A new natural event of great ecological importance began this month at Playa Ostional, Guanacaste, with the arrival of hundreds of olive ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea ...
Aha, maybe we have just discovered why the sea turtle is going extinct & it is not global warming. !!!!!.... Sending you an e-mail of the turtle poachers on the beaches of Costa Rica. See the 2nd ...
Playa Ostional, Costa Rica | Sometimes they arrive one at a time, other times it’s a dozen or two. There are special occasions, however, that the olive ridley sea turtles disembark by the thousands on ...
It’s not quite dawn when my tour group is allowed to step onto the beach at Playa Ostional to see a huge arribada, an arrival of olive ridley sea turtles. We almost make a huge faux pas. Several of us ...