Night adventure

A late night adventure, part of the group went in the field yesterday at noon, by 7 pm they had not returned, sowe went out to search for them. After bargaining with a local to bring me with his 4 wheeler to the site where they were doing the study, we left in the darkness along a small sendero deep in the jungle. Fortuneatly they were exactly were I thought they would be, stuck in the mud, all three in the front compartment of the pickup half naked from the humid warmth of the jungle eating some of the food they had left. They explained that all was well but then a quick intense rain flash made the trail into a big muddy hole and they were stuck in deep. Fortuneatly it did not take us very long to get them out, 10 minutes and a lot of reving and pushing and we were on our way back to cozy beds!

Ya esta!

Rainy blind stint!

Our first stint passed in the blind was not successful! After spending three days at the camp and in the observation tower we did not even see one King Vulture!

Althoutgh this is rare, it happens. One of the guides told me that there is a cow carcass not very far from our site and that in these instances the birds will sleep near the carcass for a few days! Oh well, we will be going back next week! Patience is key!

Here a little picture of our camp as well! I guess I forgot to mention that it rained for the first time in a month, for the whole three days we were in camp! It did not take very long but some of my clothes and gear are already getting mouldy, the joys of the jungle!

our new beetle field car!

I´ve been in lots of different types of field vehicles but I must say this one tops all of them! I don´t think we will keep it very long but this car is really strong for its

size!!!

Now that´s a spider!

A couple of nights ago we had a little visitor on our porch, not as scary as the Coral snake in our bathroom last night but its definiteley up there in Matt´s yikes scale!

Then there was the little less dangerous house mouse that fell in our sink which still had a little water left in there. I managed to save it on time and it made it but this picture is priceless, pobrecito!

Finally I just had to post this picture of me and our guide Nicolas laughing at one of our assistant was going up the ladder to the observation point for the first time!

Los ninos del campo

A couple of days ago we were building the ladders for the observation sites, as we were doing this I noticed that the local kids seemed quite intruiged by the ladder we were trying out in the tree in front of our house. As I had a little rope left and a board I built a swing for the kids, it did not take 5 minutes that they were all in our yard playing, and then in the house in the back yard and now they come whenever we are around to play with the gringos. Its great to have them around, anyhow I took a picture of the kids which is great!