Birds and Monkeys and Animals, Oh My!

Just from our house and right around the resort, we saw all sorts of animals! It was a regular jungle out there! We also took a riverboat cruise and saw many other animals - but I'll include those in my post about our activities down there.

Loved these little bright colored crabby fellows!

They make a fabulous little splat sound when you accidentally run over them as Mom and me found out (Oh CRAP! whoops!) She was driving and didn't see it...

The birdies liked our pool

And they'd sing to us...

If you look right in the middle of the pic, there is a monkey on the edge of our pool!! He was swinging from the trees and I ran in to get my camera and since it was so cold inside and hot out, it fogged and it was slow. And this is the only picture I was able to get of the monkey who wanted to use our pool as a fountain.

One of the many iguanas roaming around.

We saw many monkeys - we didn't always have our cameras ready though. This time, we were in the shuttle and the guy stopped and we all got out to take some pics. This is a howler monkey.

And here is a white faced monkey... just like Ross' from Friends!

Here's mom taking a picture of the monkeys in the trees. You can see a little white faced monkey in the tree if you look closely - that's how close we were to them!

These are coatimundi. They are called coatis. Apparently they are a bit like raccoons and a bit like possums.

A coati family.

Some more birds that we saw frequently.