Landscape from above

Here's the first of my promised blog entries. I finally got my computer hooked up to the wireless internet here at Palo Verde. So, these should be more frequent for the next week (until we head to Cabo Blanco where there is no internet access. Here's a picture of Costa Rica from above, as we were descending to land in San Jose (which is in the center of the country). I was amazed to see the fragmentation of the landscape- most of the forest is heavily fragmented except for the protected areas.