Arenal and the Hanging Bridges

This is a good view of the Arenal volcano. Quite often the whole top is covered with clouds, but you can see a lot of it here. This is a fairly new volcano and first erupted in 1968 and is still somewhat active with smoke and some lava flow.

This bird is probably an egret or a crane. It was extremely tall and skinny, the neck looked unreal it was so thin. It was along the road to the Hanging Bridges near Arenal.

This is a green lizard who wanted to share one of the hanging bridges with us.

This is another type of lizard on a log near the hanging bridges of Arenal.

This is one of the Hanging Bridges we walked over. It was called the Fer de Lance Bridge. I am glad he wasn't home when we were walking across his bridge because he is one of the most venomous snakes in Costa Rica. They say about 12 people are killed each year from the poisonous fangs of the Fer de Lance. Most of these occur in the agricultural fields where they like to hang out since they eat rodents and there are supposed to be a lot of rodents in the fields. The only one we have seen was at La Paz and he was behind thick glass. These snakes are big, dark patterned and ugly, with a triangular shaped head like a rattle snake. That was one of the days I was without my camera so have no pictures from that excursion.

Laurie in front of the falls along the trail between the Hanging Bridges.

This is looking down onto one of the trees we looked at from a hanging bridge.

These are the multiple air roots of one of the trees we saw on the hike from bridge to bridge.

This is a big black bird, probably a vulture near where we ended the hike.

This is the Arenal Lake.