La Cangreja - Home for Alpha 3
For the past week Alpha 3 has been settling into their jungle home set in the midst of La Cangreja National Park on the eastern side of Costa Rica. La Cangreja (The Crab) is one of Costa Rica's newest parks, prtoecting tropical forests in the Puriscal Region, Talamanca Mountain Range. With an annual rainfall of more than 160 inches (Alpha 3 can testify to this!), varied topography and Tropical Humid Forest and Pre-Montane Humid Forest La Cangreja has an abundance of both flaura and fauna. The area is of particular interest to biologist from throughout the world who have already identified a number of new species from the area.
This beautiful spot is where Alpha 3 is currently calling home, and after a week of wash outs and re-builds their jungle camp has been built and work is underway on the wheel chair path, only the second of it's kind in Costa Rica. Raleigh works in partnership with the national park service in Costa Rica, MINAE, which relies heavily on volunteers to protect the national parks which make up around 21% of Costa Rica's land mass - Costa Rica is one of the world leaders in terms of protecting its natural environment and the work Raleigh does is helping to protect these parks. By improving the infrastructure, such as paths, Raleigh is helping to increase visitor numbers and income levels necessary to ensure the work of MINAE continues.
Below is Cerro La Cangreja, or the Crab, from which the park gets its name - for hopefully obvious reasons!
It's not all work though, and Alpha 3 have also had plenty of opportunity to swim in the waterfalls, play football (led of course by Soccer Steve) and explore their beautiful surroundings. Always full of banter and fun, Alpha 3 are an incredibly tight knit group and we at field base love them almost as much as you!
hiya fers (ross),
ReplyDeleteThought you had all fell of the planet!! cant believe there is pictures and you are not in them - have you been kidnapped????
Missing u loads, even had a wee shot of your keyboard(very badly)yesterday, never thought i would miss that noise!
send us a wee message when you can with ur new stories, i'm sure there must be plenty.
Nothing much changed here except the george foreman is immaculate, good times honey.
Believe it or not there is 6cm of rain here, think that must beat the jungle in cost rica hands down, u take care and watch oot for big spiders (have u seen any??) dont bring them home!
luv u
mum and cherlie x x x x x
Hi Joanne and the rest of Alpha 3,
ReplyDeleteIt's great to hear how tight-knit a group you've all become, and congratulations with the completion of your jungle camp/persevering with all the rain. All the best with your work on the wheelchair path. Love from Sandy xxx
hi ross, hope your having a fab time in the jungle, looks absolutely terrific! thinking of you everyday and your wee photo is up on our fridge so we see you everday :D write back when you can.
ReplyDeletetake care ! missing you loads and love you lots and lots like jellie tots (maybe just a wee bit more)
love auntie cindy and laura doll
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