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After visiting Chichen Itza and stopping for lunch we stopped off at the 60m deep cenote Ix Kil and went for a swim. Unlike many of the people there I did not have a water proof camera so my only two … Continue reading →

Since I was a kid reading about it in National Geographic magazine I’ve imagined visiting Chichen Itza. despite the overwhelming number of vendors saying “$1 Mister.” and  “$1 señor” it is as fantastic as I imagined.

The study group’s truck broke downdown so no outing today. That meant dividing the leaves & flowers by species and weighing them. hose are mangrove flowers in the left fore ground and the rest are leaves of various species of … Continue reading →

Those of you who have lived in San Francisco for a while may remember a Mission District store called Four Brothers Furniture. It was at the corner of 18th and Mission in that beautiful enameled steel building and had the … Continue reading →

This is so far the rainiest ‘dry season’ I have ever experienced. I realize that that is a relative term and that compared to the ‘wet season’ these intermittent showers might be a literal and figurative drop in the bucket. … Continue reading →

Because of last night’s rain they put off going out and tromping around a mangrove swamp. But I had a very productive day: I learned how to get there by (an oft intermittent bus), I went shopping for some foodstuffs*, … Continue reading →

I’ll be working on a long term survey of the soils and waters of the coastal mangrove forests as pertains to climate change. Almost as if in honor of that it rained last night for the first time, I was … Continue reading →

I took LOTS of photos and videos of this wonderful Parque Nacional, the wintering place for thousands of flamingos. Unfortunately, I have not yet figured out how to move them from my phone to my pad even though both are … Continue reading →

It is ten minutes past the pick up time but I am chalking it up to the manana attitude for which Mexico is so well known. On the other hand the taxi they sent to pick me up was 15 … Continue reading →

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