A day at La Paz Waterfall Gardens

We decided to show our guests our favorite Costa Rican spot, the Waterfall Gardens, which is located on the road to the Poas Volcano and about an hour and a half from our home. Here are two visiting families (not including the Phillips who left for the Ighani farm at dawn this morning), Bob and Linda Fall and Dick and Colleen Venizia. The Venizias, from the Florida Keys, are doing an interesting house swap with some friends of ours for a couple of weeks.
Here is the bunch heading down the stairs to the butterfly garden portion of the tour. This day there were hundreds of blue "morphos" fluttering all over the enclosure (which is about the size of a football field).

Here's Dick with a morpho on is finger. When they open up their wings they're a gorgeous sky-blue color.
Below is a nearby dish with raw bananas on it which has attracted this huge batch of morphos:














After the "flutterbys" we stopped for a long while and thoroughly enjoyed the hummingbirds who are easily attracted to the hand-held feeders.
(You can see one in mid-air near the two feeders if you blow up this photo.)














Here are the friends walking down the steel stairway to the waterfalls. (This amazing structure took 20 workers about two years to complete!)
See the site for more details: www.waterfallgardens.com