Sometimes what you take back from an unfamiliar place
is blurry.
This is the agouti and the tamandua
There are 10 pound iguanas.
I'm not kidding.
Mangrove swamp.
A hummingbird.
There's one flower in the mangrove swamp,
and this bird depends on it.
Howler monkeys.
The anhinga drying her wings.
A roosting tree.
I couldn't believe it.
The fence posts sprouting.
That wouldn't happen in Arizona.
These guys were playing checkers,
and when they had kings, they turned over the bottle tops.
Our guide, Ramon, was so good.
He'd be driving the bus and he would stop point.
We'd get out our binoculars.
He'd point again, then he'd point
and we'd recognize that there were birds moving over there,
and pretty soon we'd see siskins or macaws.