Mar 19 2009
No hope of even beginning to catch up on Ecuador stuff, but I thought I’d share some of an incredible hour and a half we spent yesterday afternoon. It was after lunch, in the cloud forest near Mindo, Ecuador. The shot below is reasonably representative of the habitat. We turned off the highway into the [...]
Nov 18 2008
The exit (or entrance) to the Panamá Canal, looking from Gatún Locks toward the Caribbean Sea It’s time–finally–for me to finish with a few last images from mid-October’s press tour with the Panama La Verde group. When I left off, we had just had a whirlwind day in the Albrook-Gamboa area. We only had two more days, one [...]
Oct 29 2008
On the recent Panama press trip, all our days were full ones, but the one that stands out as the fullest was the one we spent along the canal’s east side in the Albrook/Gamboa/Pipeline Road area. It would have been tight to cover this much territory in four days–doing it in one was way, way [...]
Oct 21 2008
At times I’m suspicious of the whole idea of humans rescuing wildlife. We cause so much harm to native plants and animals in nearly everything we do that aiding an individual animal in distress can seem like the exception that proves the rule; one step forward in the course of a headlong retreat. Still I [...]
Oct 17 2008
OK, Sharon, this one’s for you, in particular… While the volcanic highlands that stretch across the Costa Rica-Panama border don’t have quite the bird diversity of some of the surrounding lowlands, they are especially rich in a couple of groups. Hummingbirds, while also well-represented elsewhere, are a major attraction here, especially at Los Quetzales Ecolodge [...]
