Arenal

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The Arenal Lodge and Volcano, and Fortuna

00_CD2_53-1024.jpg The view from our chalet.	01_PB150066-1024.jpg A view of the volcano on the road from Fortuna.	01a_CD2_52-1024.jpg The clouds over the top were from the volcano's steam.	01b_CD2_51-1024.jpg Arenal Volcano, with a minmum of clouds.
02_PB150067-1024.jpg That night we watched lava flowing down the side.	03_PB150070-1024.jpg Driving up to the chalet.	04_PB150071-1024.jpg A view from the chalet.	05_PB150072-1024.jpg One wall was wrap-around glass, the better to watch the volcano in the evening.
06_PB150074-1024.jpg The road behind the chalets.	07_PB150077-1024.jpg The volcano generated its own clouds. This view is from the Arenal Lodge.	08_PB150078-1024.jpg The lake was created for hydroelectricity, and great windsurfing.	09_PB150079-1024.jpg Sarah, Chris, and Sharon on the little deck off the chalet.
10_PB150082-1024.jpg The road behind Chris and Sarah's chalet.	11_PB160097-1024.jpg The Arenal Lodge had some great foliage.	12_PB160098-1024.jpg Beautiful flowers.	13_PB160099-1024.jpg A flower in the butterfly garden.
14_PB160100-1024.jpg Sugar cane at the base of the volcano.	15_PB160101-1024.jpg This is as close as we could drive to the base of the volcano.	16_CD2_05-1024.jpg The power walker coming out of the sugar cane.	17_CD2_04-1024.jpg Mick in his riding rain jacket.
18_CD2_03-1024.jpg Sharon in the sugar cane field, staying roughly dry.	19_048_48-1024.jpg Sharon getting ready to climb out of the forest up onto the volcanic rock.	20_CD2_01-1024.jpg Mick amonst the big rocks.	21_043_43-1024.jpg Sarah and Chris on the volcanic flow.
21_050_50-1024.jpg Chris and Sarah going with the flow.	22_049_49-1024.jpg Arenal Volcano in the distance, shrouded in its clouds, with its black pumice flow in the foreground.	23_CD2_02-1024.jpg Sharon on the rocks.	24_046_46-1024.jpg Sharon on the bank of the Tabacon River
25_045_45-1024.jpg The Tabacon River just beyond the volcanic flow.	26_PB160104-1024.jpg The Tabecon River, downstream.	27_PB160105-1024.jpg The Tabecon River, upstream.	28_PB160106-1024.jpg The roof at the little restaurant in Fortuna.
29_PB160107-1024.jpg Hanging in Fortuna.	30_PB160110-1024.jpg Sharon at the restaurant in Fortuna.	31_PB160111-1024.jpg Some bicycle art on the edge of Fortuna.	32_042_42-1024.jpg Notice the small hawk sitting on the pole.
33_041_41-1024.jpg Sharon with one of the many plants everywhere.	PB170112-1024.jpg They jam the sticks into the ground, and they grow into bushes. A little more lush than Colorado, maybe even Florida.	PB170113-1024.jpg Lying in the hammock in the pagoda we found below the Arenal Lodge.	PB170115-1024.jpg The hanging chair in the pagoda.
PB170116-1024.jpg Chris and Sarah found the hammock pretty comfortable, too.	PB170124-1024.jpg The Arenal Lodge driveway was 2 kilometers long, with several of these signs.	PB170125-1024.jpg The real reason for the signs.	PB170129-1024.jpg This guy was quite familar with begging. He is a coati, I think.
PB170131-1024.jpg A whole family wanted to see whatever we had.

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