The campsite at bonito was nice, it had a pool and hammock area which most people stayed at for the whole time, we put the tent up and within a minute it was scorching hot in there, it was so hot that a lot of things we had melted, even the little capsule tablets. We found out shortly that we had changed time zone so actually arrived at about 7 in the morning and woke up at about half past 4, people were annoyed at this. We chilled out in the hammocks and then went into town, the town was nice, it had little souvenir shops and quiet streets. While we were walking down we saw three red macaws flying together just across the street which was really cool. That night we had a stir fry for dinner which was a nice change to pasta.
That night just before going to bed I stepped out of the tent just to pull the rain cover over in case it rained, I took a couple of steps and got sharp pains in the ends of my toes like I had just stepped into some thorns, I got back into the tent and got a torch so I could see what I had done. I looked down and my foot had about 8 or so big vicious looking red ants on it and a few had there big teeth in the end of a few of my toes and were actually dripping blood, it was really painful to say they were so small. They would not come out when you pulled them, a couple of their heads came off as I pulled them because they were in so tight, they started to sting as well and I had fairly big slices in my skin and quite a bit of blood. I shone the torch outside where there were thousands of them riddled in front of the tent where I must have just stepped right into the middle of in bare feet without knowing.

The next day I rented a bike with a few other people and went to a nearby snorkelling pool, it was about 6km away and was hard in the heat. The snorkelling was cool, there was tonnes of fish and it was really clear. When we finished we sat by the water on some steps. Scott and kaila pushed me and Max into the water and then threw a heap of fish food in right at us, the fish started going mental around us and were whipping and slapping under water and it didn't feel good.

After this we sat in some hammocks and a toucan flew by and perched on a chair right by us. You could tell it was used to people as it didn't move even though we got so close we could touch it, it started pecking at the hammock and we just stared at it because they look so weird. Its eyes looked like bright blue marbles and its beak looked so big it shouldn't be able to balance let alone fly, it looked altogether surreal to see one in person. Shortly after this we also saw a red macaw and a yellow macaw perched on a beam of a nearby house, these also looked fake.

Later that day we went to a restaurant in town as it was Paul's birthday, one of the other truck drivers gave us all a lift down. At the restaurant we had capybara wrapped in bacon, as well as pecari (Spikey pig) they were both quite tasty and really rich, they also came with a side of the local cuisine, flour with bacon bits in, this was terrible. We then walked home to get an early night before the big snorkelling trip.

We were at breakfast for 6am where we stuffed ourselves on the buffet, then we set off in the truck, the truck was really fun as on the way we say red macaws flying across the sky, we saw toucans hopping across branches in the trees and we also saw a giant ant eater. The truck scared it away but it was huge, it looked like a black bear running into the bushes.

We split into two groups for the snorkelling, we got our wet suits on and got a cattle truck to the start point. The water was unbelievably clear, you could see everything and there wasn't even a blue tint to the water it was crystal clear. We got in and started swimming, you weren't allowed to touch the bottom to protect the river, there were tonnes of all different types are f fish and they were all massive, some about 50cm long, it felt like you were swimming in a fish tank because it was that clear. Within a few minutes our guide stopped and pointed to what we were swimming past, 5 Meyers away there was a camen (similar to crocodile) just sat in the water. We also went over a few springs in the water which were really cold when you went over them and they puffed up a cloud of sand as if something was rummaging around in it. You could swim down and touch it bus was about 3 or 4 metres down so was difficult. We went down the river for about 2.5 hours, the water changed in depths from about 50cm to 15 meters. It was really awesome and we took some videos to show how cool it really was. After this we had a buffet at the farmhouse which was amazing and perfect after swimming. On the way out of the ranch we drove past an armadillo which was cool to see but it too scuttled off too fast to get a photo.

It was a chilled day for the rest of the day, we laid in hammocks and got in the pool. It got to about 4pm when Max turned up at the camp and asked us if we left anything at the snorkelling. It turns out we had forgot him and left him there for about 6 hours and no one at all realised until he managed to get his way back to the campsite and tell people, we felt bad but everyone found it hilarious.