While we were eating breakfast this morning in an outdoor restaurant buffet something caught my eye. Monkeys. White-faced Capuchin monkeys had come to pillage the restaurant. They would fly down from the roof, steal the sugar packets on the table, glide back to the top of the roof, rip the packet open and pour the sugar into their mouths. This was our first incident with these monkeys.
We traveled an hour and fifteen minutes to Manuel Antonio to hike around the park a bit before spending almost the entire day at the beach. Once again, around lunch time, a troop of monkeys attacked. Looking for food and absent minded tourists, the monkeys took everything they could find that they could eat. We were in the water when they first arrived, at first we heard screams and then there were people starting to gather, a couple monkey screeches and a man running after a stolen juice box and the race was on.
The water was incredible at Manuel Antonio and the entire group enjoyed seeing the monkeys, and multiple sloths during the day. We came back to the hotel where the students played volleyball and rested for the afternoon before eating another top-notch dinner served in the open air restaurant across from our rooms.
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| These were the thieves that came to our table-side this morning. |
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| This is the first sloth that we saw this morning. |
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| Another sloth at the beach. |
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| Coincidently, Ben was a victim of one of the monkeys. His lunch bag was stolen from his side, fortunately Ben had already eaten it. The monkey searched the bag for food and after finding that the bag was just trash he got upset and threw the contents of the bag all over. |
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| This monkey was born while were at the beach today. |
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| The wait |
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| The approach |
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| The ride |
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| The recovery |
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| Don't worry, just a Boa |
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