Tranquilo Bay: October 2009

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Happy Halloween

Jim and Tres found this two pumpkins in Bocas Town last week. We couldn't get over how lucky we were to find them. We are quite certain that we have the only two jack-o-lanterns in Bocas right now. The kids had a blast carving these up yesterday and can't keep themselves away from looking at them once lit. Great fun. Hope you all are having a great Halloween.

Labels: Holidays, Photographs

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Turtle Nesting at the Zapatilla Cayes

Here are a couple of pages I put together to capture a once in a lifetime experience of some of our guests in August. This family was at the Zapatilla Cayes and it was about time to return to Tranquilo Bay. Ramon was working the beach doing his rounds looking for nesting females, but really it was quite early. He happened upon a nesting female. He told Jim and the guests to come see her and to come see what they do when they study the females to tag them, gather scientific information, etc. During this nesting season, Ramon and Natalia happened upon a female nesting during daylight hours twice. It is very unusual. If you calculated the odds of a family from New Jersey getting the chance to see this while on vacation here in Panama - the odds would be very very low. However, luck was on their side and they experienced something that so few people in the world have a chance to experience. Here are the photos.

Zapsatdusk

Labels: Animals, Beaches, Bocas del Toro Panama, Photographs, Sea Turtles

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Tranquilo Bay Posters

Here are a couple of posters that I made for Jim to take to a trade show a year or so ago. I realized that I never posted them here as I was working on the blog recently. Email me if you want a copy of them to print out. Have a great weekend!

tbsummaryl

Labels: Bocas del Toro Panama, Panama Hotel, Panama Trip, Photographs

Friday, October 16, 2009

The Nature Conservancy - Bocas del Toro

This video was prepared before the USAID CCAW projects were underway. Look to the video for insights as to what you might encounter here not for the things that need to be protected although these things do in fact need to be protected. And we are working towards improving the sustainability of this precious area.