Hacienda Baru
Highlands Views, Trails and More

As we walk up through the highland trails, we see beautiful late
afternoon light, panoramic vistas, termite nests and more.

 

The setting sun provides
wonderful color along
the hillsides.


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New growth and low cover
abounds in this ever
changing place.


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Overlooking the town of
Dominical below, with the
Pacific Ocean beyond.


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Another view of Baru's
tree covered landscape.


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A peek northward reveals
more of the same: forested
lowlands where once
was pasture land (only 25
years earlier).

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A strangler fig slowly grows
up and around the other tree,
defining one of the slowest
battles that living nature
has to show for us.

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A termite nest that reminds
me of ones found on the
Serengeti in Africa, though
those were 3 meters tall,
and on the ground.

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An entranceway into an
bee's next is covered by
defensive sticky goo,
meant to keep predatory
insects away.
Or maybe they are
baby shoes?


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