Damas Island Mangrove Tour

So I finally got the chance to do something very touristy. I got invited to go on a Mangrove Tour near the Island of Damas. A mangrove is a tree grows in muddy, tropical coastal swamps they typically have numerous tangled roots above ground. Anyways the tour was a lot of fun, and as you can see from the many pictures below I got to see many beautiful things of nature that Jehovah God created.
Here is the group of brothers I went with, Megan and Victoria on the left, and this new couple that is visiting us from Texas for two months to help out Jade and Brett.

This is the Tour guide, Marcos. He is an elder in the Quepos congregation and works for Iguana Tours. He gave the talk last week in our congregation and offered to give Megan and Victoria a free tour, and I got invited to tag a along! Lucky me.

This is the boat we took to go on the tour, everyone is happy and excited to begin the tour!
As we were going through the swaps, this is what the scenery looked like, the trees to the left and to the right are the Mangrove trees.

Here is a picture of a grab we saw, his back looks like the face of a tiger.

Here is the area when we got out of the swamp.

This is Manuel Antonio off from a distance, and to the right you can see waves coming in from the ocean.

Here are some houses right next to the lake area. Apparently the brother go preaching there by boat I believe.

This part was pretty awesome, we spotted two monky's and they came very close to us, because our tour guide was teasing them with banana's. He would throw it on the roof of the boat and the monkey jumped on top of our boat to get the banana.

Here he is eating the banana he got. Its pretty amazing to sight to see in person.

Here is part of the lake area we went to, with a beautiful scene I had to take a picture of.

This is our tour guide showing off the fish he had caught.


Here is a picture of a baby bird in a next.
The white thing in the picture is a frog. The brother had really good eyes to spot this frog. He is called the gladiator frog.
This is an Iguana I saw next to the tour guide place at the end of the tour, fittingly, I saw an Iguana in a tour place called Iguana Tours.

After leaving the tour we went to eat at a restaurant in Quepos and I had Ceviche with plantains.