Travel: Daily Walk in 10 Pictures 08.18.10

Though a lot of hotels in Manuel Antonio boasted that we will see monkeys from our window, we mainly saw a lot of these giant spiders. We saw more interesting animals on the streets of Costa Rica than in the rainforest. This dog lived in a house near one of our hotels and he looked a lot like Ms. M. He even lazed around all day like her.

Everywhere we went, especially in Manuel Antonio and Quepos, we saw dogs just laying around or walking about and hanging out with other dogs.
This dog was passed out in the middle of the bus terminal and he didn't even move when people were standing all around him.
We hardly ever see Dalmatians where we live, but we saw quite a few in Costa Rica and one even lived at the firehouse in Quepos.

There were dogs that would walk around everywhere in Manuel Antonio and we thought they were strays like the one below, but then we would see them in front of a house or beckoning to someone's call. Jorge from the Toucan Rescue Ranch told us that many people let their dogs run free and the dogs come back home at night.

A loved this dog because she spent all day jumping in the waves and we saw her the next day back on the beach playing and jumping in the waves again.

We saw several small pet shops in La Fortuna and Quepos that had small puppies for sale. Strange thing is that we think we saw two dogs that looked exactly the same as the ones below in cage in front of someone's house.

When we were looking for a hotel in Manuel Antonio, we kept seeing what looked like the same cat in every hotel that we visited. A thinks that the cats were all from the same litter and they were given as a gift to each hotel.
We did see these really colorful crabs in the rainforest.