I sat in with (left to right) Rani, (me in the background) Carlos & Junior last Friday at Parquecito.

Rolf had us over to his place for a barbecue at his place last Saturday. Before dinner I noticed a couple of chestnut mandibled (the largest, but not the most colorful, of the 3 toucan species seen here) in tree in the front yard a couple hundred feet away. Rolf got his scope out. I put our camera to the scope eyepiece and shot this before the second of the two flew away. People in the U.S. have forgotten what meat tastes like. Animals that spend a few years wandering around eating whatever is in season, taste much different than factory produced meat raised on feed (corn, fish meat & meal) that they never were evolved to eat. The night ended with Juana getting us up to dance Salsa & Tumba.

Rolf & Juana are spoiling us by putting us up in a 500 square foot room with 200 square of balcony added. We protested at first but now we love it. It's much different than our digs in San Blas where our shower consisted of a pail ladling out from a barrel of rainwater from the roof. Sharle says she may choose Asian tapas & all-you-can-eat sushi tonight.