Jay M. Pasachoff's

Costa Rica Annular Eclipse Trip

December, 2001

The crocodiles and bird were seen on the Tarjoles River near Punta Leona. The Ridley turtle was seen nesting on Ostional Beach, near the eclipse site. It is one of the world's major turtle nesting sites.


Jay Pasachoff
Williams College, currently at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Chair, International Astronomical Union Working Group on Eclipses. Chair, Program Group on Public Education at the Times of Eclipses of the Commission on Education and Development of the I.A.U.

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