Journal Playas del Coco, Guanacaste Prov., Costa Rica 28 July The festival was quite an experience. Much food, music, exhibitions (bramcows, goats) & many horses. Beautiful horses! A small ferris wheel entertained the children and a salsa band, the adults. I ran into Leonard from Playas del Coco, who introduced me to Lucia. Later Lucia, Duke, Ed, & Lucias friends went to a discothegue in Liberia Pretty wild. Lucias friend Annie taught me spanish over rum & coke the better part of the night, in addition to dancing of course. Tilaran, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica 56am 29 July We're in a hotel room in Tilaran. It's 9 pm. Today we set 150 Sherman at the 4.1 km E Tilaran locality. Ed & I set 70 traps in the riparian forest on the south side of the stream. of the 40 I set, 5 were directly streamside (for Rheomys w/ luck) & 35 were in 2o forest w/ (>100% crown cover) w/ moderately dense (40-60%) shrub-small tree cover. My line was closely paralleled the stream while Ed's franelleded (& was closer to) the edge - directly beyond which is the farmland-pasture land. The riparian strip is a mere 15-30m deep on this side & considerably more narrow (becoming absent) on the stream's north side. Duke set his traps like the same stream on the other side of the road. We also set traps just in a small forest in Tilaran.