At Playa Conchal with Menna

Kinder field trip to Finca life

Trying on her performance outfit with her smiling teacher Marian

Coffee house performances at the Friend's school

Liana's first tap performance. Solo!
Tony on keys.
Menna on keys.
Tony on guitar.
Tony and Menna singing.
And I did a yoga dance with some lovely ladies (no, Tony didn't take any photos of that.)

Our tarantula visitor

Flooding and animals

Last week we had a drainage issue with the land behind our house. We avoided a flood, luckily.
We have seen several animals lately that I haven't gotten good photos of, so some have been taken from the web.
We did have a tarantula trying to get in our house this morning and we got a video of that.

Benito says the baby sloth isn't growing much. It keeps having diarrhea.

New moth

Here is a moth I've never seen before. Every couple days I see a new insect of some sort.

Liana with the bananas.

Wildlife sightings

Weeks can go by without seeing much of anything too unusual and then there is a twenty-four hour period full of wonder.

Last night on the way to burger night at the local Lodge (.3 miles from our house) we walked with flashlights looking for wildlife. Liana wanted to see an owl, which we almost never see. I was on the lookout for a sloth, which we have only seen a couple times in the last year. We saw nothing but some bats.

Then, on the walk home Liana said, "I want to see an owl." Three seconds later, an owl replied, "woo-hooooo." There were two owls calling to each other. I joined in and actually called the owl out of the forest. It flew over our heads and settled into the forest across the street.

We continued on our walk on our little dirt road home and I was shining my flashlight into the trees. There we spied a sloth climbing up a tree to settle back in the canopy. Quite a successful night hike.

This morning a pizote (coati) was sniffing around our yard hoping to come in for some of our pile of bananas. Then I took a walk and saw leaf cutter ants, blue morpho butterflies, hawks, cows, an agouti (large rodent), and white faced monkeys eating guayabas. Luckily they knocked some down for me to bring home for Liana and Tony.

Also, our chickens laid three eggs and Tony cut down two racimas of bananas while I was gone.

Unfortunately I have no photos of any of it. Only words.

Rebecca