The lancha we took down the estuario san cristobal
Anhinga bird (snake cormorant)
Mangroves
Iguana
Not ever used for living in but built for the movie "Cabeza de Vaca"
Bromeliads
Snail hawk
Ferns and lilies
Watch out!
Turtles
Open wide
Baby in hiding
Ramon
David Sobolewski trying to be a birder
Jungle berries
Birder - Mark Stackhouse
Road maintenance on the El Camino Real
Machete man
Ardent birders
El Camino Real - from Mexico City to San Blas
A Gumbo Limbo (or tourist) tree - because it´s red and peeling
Mexcaltitan - best hotel
Mexcaltitan - off to school
The Empanada lady
Mexcaltitan - the main drag
I want his job
Mexcaltitan
Fiesta feast
Oven
Dude with hat seller
Young dude
Chicken lady
Vaqueros
At the chute
Family affair
Good mule
Melaque - Firework tower
Melaque St Patricks Day Fiesta
Melaque pictures are thanks to Sandy & Max on Volo
Happy pandemonium
Instituto Danza Folklorico en Zihuatanejo
Tierra Caliente
Tabasco
Michoacan
Zihua folklorico
Last night of Zihua guitar fest
Sound mans birthday
Tricitaxis in Tuxtla Chico
Tuxtla market
As every sales person knows, presentation is everything
Yummy
Tuxtla Chico chickens
Fiesta in Tuxtla Chico
Really handcrafted chocalate
Tuxtla Chico choclatiers
Ensuring the right texture
Luis and Rene Cifuentes
Santo Domingo gallery
Painted guanacaxtle wainscotting
Eva Braun's brother and cronies
Finca Santo Domingo
Suzy with coffe beans
Talquian
High elevation hoops
Talquian mainstreet
Agentle resident
Do you have anything for a mule in there?
Talquian cobbles
S.E. Chiapas mountain villages
Carne Asada & tortillas
The Cifuentes tribe
Luis
The guests
Richard in the garden at Mama's Y Papa's in Tacuba
Mama Y chicas en la cocina
The open front door
Virginia cooling off in La Luna Falls
Bathing beauties Cathy and Roger
Mama y Papa Cabin
Patos locos
Tacuba view
Tacuba
Ready for the waterfall hike
Mama y Papa hammocks
Haleconias
Motley crew
Towards Guatemala
Coffee view
Coffee flowers - make good honey
Looking North towards Ahuachapan
Shrooms
Into the windchimes
La Luna falls
Bathers
Virginia tests the waters
Bathing beauty
Mandy, Sidewinder + Roger & Cathy
Amel & William -- good guides
Jump you bastard!
Singing duck (with Osirus)
Remeber the Alamo!
This beast needs a meal
Santa Teresa Finca hot springs
Main drag Tacuba
The erie atop Mama's Y Papa's
Guzman Museum of anthropology -
Remenant of violent times
Clay miniature scenes in The museum of popular art San Salvador
"Surpresas" a form of popular art originated in Ilobasco, El Salvador
Surpresas hide under sculpted lids.
Masks of Moors and Christians
Diablos
Folk embroidery
Conquistador
Raspado lady, Leon
Sandino
San Cristobal
Leon cathedral
Great view over the city
The Bishops garden. Nice work if you can get it.
Idea for Galicia
My sentiments entirely
The revolution is alive here
Dowdy museum
Leon Cathedral from the revolutionary headquarters roof
Black for death, red for passion
A Nica friend
The contras got this guy
La Casa Leonesa
Our hotel in Leon
The courtyard
One of many fine ventilated ceilings
Our room
Lovely painting. Dora wouldn't sell it
Sad mural
Sandanista
At the Museum of Legends and Myths
Prison in the XX1 garrison
Murals at the Museo de Leyendas y Mitos
Ernan Cabezon and La Gigantona. They are everywhere
La Llurona
The Chariot of Deathj
Headless priest
Sun worship in a Sutiava Cathedral
Tropical colors
Leon street scene
Bananas at the bus stop
Joanna on the zip line above San Juan del Sur
My turn.
Nica bus
She'll be coming down the zip line when she comes..
Big spider on the ferry boat to Ometepe
Inside the ferry
Jo and Julia chow down on arriving at Ometepe
Relaxing on porch of our cabin at Finca Magdalena
Outbuilding at Finca Magdalena
Ometepe butterlies
Dug out canoe on banks of Lake Nicaragua
Little farm on the island
Sentry puppy
Arty farty pig and door on Ometepe
Friends forever!
Volcano Conception on Ometepe
$1.50 per night hammocks at Finca Magdalena
Coffee processing plant at Finca Magdalena a working coffee co-operative
Baby coffee plants waiting for replanting
Petroglyphs on the grounds of the farm
Jo and Julia pose for their "Visitor to Mandy" shot.
Calendar page for July 2009
Iguana man at Liberia fiesta de Sabaneros
Playa Central de Liberia, Costa Rica on Independence Day 7/25/09
Our lovely visitors Bill and Sasha came bearing goodies from home
Little Sabanero
Church decorations for the fiesta
Colonial houses in Liberia - note the tile floor.
Newspapered building in Liberia
More colonial stuff
Little senorita, s'cuse the trash bins
Our base camp for the parade of Sabaneros the Restaurant El Zaguan
Ceviche, beef tostadas and patacones made from fried plantains.
Crowds gathered for the parade
Some had better seats than others
Mule and his cowboy
Sasha bought a special hat after a couple of margaritas
Sabaneros of Guanacaste
Ceiling at El Zaguan
Cowboys gather for the Independence Day parade
Cowboy melee.
Prizewinners at the state fair
Prize Brahman bull showing off for breeders
Bull riding in the evening at the fair
Trip to Arenal National park. Man made Lago Arenal
Sasha over the lake
Stream flowing into the lake
Live fences around Arenal
Cebu cows in their pasture
Gaudy Leaf Frog
wild flowers around Arenal Lodge
Trippers at Arenal Lodge
Bill and Richard wait for Volcano Arenal to show herself out of the cloud
Sasha waits for the un-veiling
In the butterfly garden of Arenal Lodge
my exciting Blue Morpho photos
Damp and mossy in the grounds of the lodge
Howler monkeys on short hike through the rain forest walk at Arenal Lodge
White tailed deer near the stream
Arenal volcano gets naked the next morning at 6.00am
Lenticular "thank you Rupert" cloud over Arenal (a live and very active volcano)
Crater rim
From our hotel "Lomas de Volcan' after breakfast.
The guest cabins at the hotel
Our cabin
Bill and Sasha's cabin
Coffee plantation on the drive to Monteverde
Cloud Forest hike in Monteverde Parke National
Weird trunks and vines in the cloud forest
On the ground in the cloud forest
Smells like damp moss, is damp moss.
Exotic growth
Looking over the Continental Divide and the cloud forest of Monteverde towards the Atlantic
Visit to Casa Orquideas Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica, where Trudy and her husband have lived for thirty years and built up these glorious orchid collections and many edible fruits and plants
The meeting place for the tour of Casa Orquideas
Ginger
Cannonball Tree
Hawaian Shampoo plant
Trudy and Suzi Sidewinder
Orchid varieties
Haliconia
