The butterfly team recruited the bat, lizard, and bird team to help them with a mark and recapture project. It became a contest to see who could catch the most butterflies. Whenever the blue morpho was spotted all watchers would yell, "BLUE MORPHO! BONUS ROUND!" and everyone would go running to catch this beautiful, elusive butterfly. Somehow, Lindsay the one who brought Raid with her on the trip managed to catch this injured one and automatically won the contest.

It is absolutely amazing to see this beautiful birds in the wild. They are clearly accustomed to seeing humans and are not camera shy in the least. A truly vivid bird.

There are also several colonies of leafcutter ants on site. They are really fun to watch as the trudge along their paths carrying leaf cut outs with them. It's somewhat comical (or at least it tickles me). But it is also quite the feat. I have enjoyed watching their hard work.

Everyone loves the beach...but maybe we love it a little too much? We trek through the mud every day to get to our precious lagoon and once there we kind of let loose. We're an outlandish group and I love the situations we get ourselves into. Behold our majesty.

I've never seen a coconut sprout!

The common paraque - I have better pictures. They're weird little birds with huge eyes, small beaks, and these gargantuan, gaping mouths. Pretty freaky. Fly around at night and their eyes glow red. One of the bat team members thought it was a Fer-de-lance and ran away from it screaming. He'll never live that down.

Immature red capped manakin. He was quite tangled and then a mystery to identify but we figured him out in the end!