One of the things that's most impressive (and most important) about the tropics is the incredible abundance and diversity of life. Every square inch of everywhere is covered with something: plants, mushrooms, lichens, dying leaves… Here's a rock along one of the trails at Santa Elena National Park. We got to study it for a while while waiting for the Three-wattled Bellbird (which was bonging and bonging and bonging from a nearby perch just out of view) to make a reappearance, and I must say, I was particularly impressed by the ferns; a six-foot bank nearby had 8-10 species!
The buttresses of a huge nearby tree were equally thick with growth, well up the trunk.
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