Costa Rica

…the whole country was covered with clouds … By degrees the more distant clouds were lifted, and over the immense bed we saw at the same moment the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This was the grand spectacle we had hoped, but scarcely expected to behold.

John Lloyd Stephens Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Volume I (1841)

Some of my Instagram posts from Costa Rica

A blue morpho butterfly with closed, eye-spotted brown wings resting on a stone path at La Paz Waterfall Gardens.A yellow-throated toucan perched on a branch among green tropical leaves near Poás.The turquoise crater lake of Poás Volcano with steam rising and a green ridge above the clouds.