As I have shared in previous posts, my wife and I enjoy diving to see a different side of wildlife. Well we are finally in South America having worked our way down from Mexico City and before exploring wildlife on land we have been diving with Ocean Lovers in the Tayrona National Park to seeContinueContinue reading “Diving Tayrona National Park, Colombia”
Tag Archives: travel
Birding Bocas del Torro
We have moved on to Panama and just had a week diving the wrecks and reefs here. But we also took a day out to go birding visiting three key locations by boat – Changuinola Canal, Boca del Rio Changuinola and Isla Pajaros (Bird Island). We had arranged a boat captain (Enrique) and guide (Stacey)ContinueContinue reading “Birding Bocas del Torro”
Rich wildlife around Arenal
Our last post from the rich nature wonderland of Costa Rica focuses on birding around the Arenal Volcano. We had quite mixed weather including lots of rain but we were still pleased to see a range of birds and other wildlife. Arenal Observatory Lodge We had a very wet soggy morning at Arenal Observatory Lodge.ContinueContinue reading “Rich wildlife around Arenal”
Birding the Talamanca Highlands
Moving on through the natural wonderland of Costa Rica we have moved into the Talamanca Mountains and the area around Los Quetzales National Park and the San Gerado D’ota Valley. These mountains which form the southern spine of Costa Rica and continue into Panama have a high number of regional endemics, birds only found hereContinueContinue reading “Birding the Talamanca Highlands”
Monteverde Cloud Forest
Costa Rica has featured in my wildlife plotting for many years. I have dreamed of coming here and as we continue our journey south we are finally here. We added a few birds in El Salvador and Nicaragua but here birding was not really the focus. In fact in Nicaragua we were without our binocularsContinueContinue reading “Monteverde Cloud Forest”
Birding Tikal & Lake Atitlan
We have been in Guatemala for about 10 days and the birding has been fairly slow mainly because we haven’t been able to find a local guide. We reached out to several online but none came back to us. At Tikal we added about 10 new birds over two full days but it was frustratingContinueContinue reading “Birding Tikal & Lake Atitlan”
Snorkelling Hol Chan Marine Reserve
So followers of this blog will know that I have started diving again recently after a 20 year gap since being a keen diver before. I dive to get closer to the marine life but to be honest today’s snorkelling trip with Cave Man Snorkelling Tours, Caye Caulker Belize questioned this logic. I saw more marine lifeContinueContinue reading “Snorkelling Hol Chan Marine Reserve”
Monkeys at Punta Laguna
So today we headed out to the Punta Laguna Spider Monkey Reserve in the hope of seeing, eh Spider Monkeys. To be honest we had a slight hope of seeing Howler Monkeys albeit the website says these are much harder to see. We paid our entrance fee 200 pesos (about £9) and were off. We did haveContinueContinue reading “Monkeys at Punta Laguna”
Birding at Rio Lagartos
Two things stood out today. The first is how friendly people can be, and the second is how friendly wildlife can be. So, before I came to Mexico I had marked Rio Lagartos as somewhere I wanted to visit and in particular go birding. The best way to see it is from the water and that meansContinueContinue reading “Birding at Rio Lagartos”
Marine Life around Isla Mujeres
We have spent the last 4 days on Isla Mujeres a short ferry (and a world away) from Cancun in Mexico. We came here to do some diving and whilst I couldn’t take my “good” camera in the water, I could take the GoPro and share some of the highlights of the marine life we sawContinueContinue reading “Marine Life around Isla Mujeres”
WildScot Photography 