Comprising a Life

The Bonsai, Travels and Haiku of Vaughn Banting

Tortuguera area

The purpose of our trip to the tortuguera was to view jungle habitat and it did not dissapoint. We knew ahead of time that we were going to be too late to witness the turtles emerging from the sand but we did see the huge craters that were left on the beach.

Loading into the panga

On the river at last

Tortuguera local

Barge traffic

The river narrowing and widening

Rain on the river

River island

Spider monkeys

River lined with palms

Paul leaning from panga

River Hotel for those not wanting to rough it

Sloth with baby. We spotted at least a dozen on the trip, mostly feeding on cercropia trees

Leaning from panga

Howler monkeys

Nearing river's end

Our river at last flowed into Caribian where upon we back-tracked about a mile or two and found where we were going to lodge.

The ubiquitou leaning palm

A rather modest arrangment at arrival

Luggage handling

Morning showers

With dormitories located in the middle of the sliver of land sepparating the river from the Caribian, mosquitos were no problem

Where we stayed

Turtle holes were as large as bomb craters

Beaches where turtles bury their eggs

Around the grounds

Launching new dugout

Family home

Taking a jungle walk

Paul not too happy

Paul photographing heliconia

Heliconia