Montezuma Waterfalls and the walk back

Last Saturday, Kristin and I were going to take the bus over to Montezuma (a 45 minute ride).  Before we left, the wild capuchins came through and I caught one of the more mature monkeys resting while the younger idiots kept making a rucous.

When we got to Montezuma, we walked through the small town...definitely more of a tourist town.....and did a little shopping in the park.  We also stopped off at a beach side cafe to have some coffee before heading to the waterfalls.

Here was a funny little magpie jay that kept hopping around while we drank our coffee.

At the entrance to the waterfalls, we encountered this sign......we decided to chance it anyways.  Later, we understood the warning.

There were a few spots along the river where there was a slight traffic jam....here you had to use a rope as you traversed the slippery edge.

We did find a few cool vines to climb...Neither Kristin nor I could resist!

This is the first of the four waterfalls along this river.  We were excited to see it and swim at the base but then......we saw the 2nd one!  Way cooler!

We were able to swim up to the waterfall and climb the rocks behind the falls.  I had to help several A American girls climb up behind the waterfall.

This is looking up at the base of the trail to the upper falls.

Then we discovered that there were 2 more waterfalls up above....the climb was pretty steep.  In some places, one wrong footing would certainly lead to a very long fall.

People were jumping off of the 3rd set of waterfalls but I was way too chicken.  This pic is looking down from the top of the waterfall.  The opening in the middle is the top of the 2nd waterfall.

Now, the I could jump from the 4th waterfall....they were baby falls.

After spending a day at the falls, Kristen and I decided to walk back to Cabuya.  It was about a 2 hour walk......here are some of the things we saw.

Halloween crabs fighting over a mango

Self explanatory, I think.

a hawk on the power lines

A female howler with a tail injury (from the uninsulated power lines).  This is apparently a huge problem that the government doesn't want to take care of.

Gorgeous red spiraled flowers

This is just the road we walked

Here is the famous strangler fig tree in Cabuya.  I am the little person at the base.  You can climb up in it and find bats roosting in the upper caves.....another time.

a pretty bird

We found these trees really cool.....if you look closely, the roots are growing around the rocks.

A Rastafarian fisherman

This is Super Chichos, the grocery store (1 of 2) in Cabuya.