So up the hill we walked, venturing deeper into Parque Nacional Volcán Baru along the stone strewn path that cut through the dense green forest. The rain was only intermittent at that hour of the morning – a pattern that we would come to notice throughout our stay in Panama from the highlands to the […]
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Posts by John E. Riutta, MA, MBA, FLS, MemRES:
Yes, We Have Fresh Bananas
Every good day of bird watching begins with a healthy breakfast. At Los Quetzales Ecolodge in the small town of Guadalupe, Chiriqui, Panama, this includes bananas. Fresh bananas – kept on their original stalks and hung over the breakfast buffet. The only way to get fresher fruit is to go out and pick it directly […]
Faster Than a Speeding Sloth
After a week in Panama birding from before dawn until dusk, then a pair of airline flights and a midnight drive that brought me back to my home in Scappoose just after 1:30 this morning, I’ve been about as energetic today as a Three-toed Sloth trying to cross a Panamanian road on a hot day. […]
From Los Quetzales Eco Logdge
Well, the folks at AT&T weren’t exactly disclosive of all the difficulties of using MMS messaging while in Panama. I have deactivated the data service of my BlackBerry for the next week while here to prevent the huge international charges on a per kilobyte transfer rate, but I was assured that SMS and MMS messages […]