You Can Pronouce it Both

Sunday, 27 September 2009 - Puerto Lemon, Costa Rica

 

Some pronounce it "slarth"

Some pronounce it "slooth"

You can say it one way

Or you can say it both

 

We arrived at this small port town on the Caribbean side of Costa Rica during lunch time and disembarked the ship at 2 pm for a 4 hour tour (!) to the "world famous" sloth sanctuary. Apparently an American lady has devoted her life to rescuing these very slow moving and painfully cute creatures. Even I thought they looked, uh, cute. When another guest on the ship asked me if I liked sloths, I said, "Of course, especially with onions." We drove along the spectacular coastline for a about 45 minutes for a video about the efforts of the sanctuary to save this endangered species, looked at dozens of them being healed back to health and/or in the trees and then took a canoe ride into the jungle. We saw lots of birds, more sloths, monkeys in the trees, various scary slithering things, and then took a guided hike in the rain forest with an enthusiastic docent as the sun set and it got scarier and more slithery creatures seemed to appear and more screeching monkeys, uh, screeched. We visited the gift shop where I avoided buying sloth refrigerator magnets and came back to the ship in the dark where the Chianti went quite well with the Weiner Schnitzel.