Journal 24 July. 3.9 km SE Playa del Coco, Guanacaste Prov., Costa Rica 50m 1:30pm Sitting here in the Juan air restaurant adjacent to our hotel ( # 280 colones), looking out at the bay. Beers are #17 but Jim Beam is #60 (as I learned last night). Yesterday we set 200 Sherman's up around the city dumps (not in g course). About 1/2-1/2 uphill - downhill. I set 40 in shrubby 2° growth and open habitat (shrub up to overstory). The ground is dry but cover is 70-80% overall. Here I caught 4 Liomys salvini. Also set 40 traps in roadside grassland -- nothing caught there. Total captures were 23 individuals ( Duke = 9 ; El = 8 ; Plat = 6 ). None pregnant near as I can tell. This morning met up again w/ Heinz Pfug (flog), our new friend from Hans ? from Fian S of the Nicaragua Frontier. Heinz is a bit obnoxious, but a good sport. Native German. Flew w/ the Luftwaffe, spent some time bombing London; now a rancher. He & his worker Leonard drank a coca & beer w/ us before we went back to work on the animals. Tonight we'll set out bat nets. But not before we hit the annual festival in Liberia where the people celebrate the 1821 Secession from Nicaragua at accession to Costa Rica. 25 July 10am Had a bit of a bonnet in Liberia last night. Unfortunately, we never set the bat nets - it started raining at the festival & we were having such a good time.