As many of you know, my daughter is studying abroad in Ecuador. She has been having a great time and seeing lots of wildlife. Much of the time she is without WIFI so when she contacts us we are very happy. You all just want creature pictures though so here we go…
While in the rainforest, they would hike 5 miles each night looking for creatures.
On one hike, she almost stepped on this very poisonous snake!
Her research project for one portion of the trip was on frogs.
Over a 3 day period, this is what she has saw:
2/21
black mantled tamarin
crane hawk
anhinga
capped heron
spix guan
squirrel monkey
green anaconda
slate collared hawk
cocoi heron
yellow spotted river turtle
blue and yellow macaws
red capped cardinals
hoatzins chickens
howler monkeys
rufescent tiger heron
2/22
orange winged amazon parrots
3 toed sloth
saki monkeys
green back trogon
1.10 amazon tree boa
medium sized black caiman
spectacled caiman
2/23
pink river dolphins
cocoi heron
giant cone looking wasp nest
bi-colored spines porcupine
long nosed bats
saki monkeys
crimson crested woodpeckers
white throated capuchin
scarlet macaw
many banded aracari
channel billed toucan
black cara cara
night monkeys lived in a stump hole on a tree two of them
black caiman 2.5 meters
3 toed sloth
Some of the people they have met are the indigenous people of the area. This guy bought a blowgun from one and was taught how to shoot poison darts (much to the instructors dismay!)
The accommodations have been from tents to nice eco-lodges.
She is enjoying the food too.
Tomorrow she heads to the Galapagos Islands for the last part of the study. I am sure that will have lots of interesting pics that I can hopefully post in the future. Hope you enjoyed this from a proud dad.
Oh wow, that’s great. I love how it’s so wet they pitch tents under a roof. What’s the mammal on the branch in the photo above that? Is that a kinkajou?
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That’s so awesome! Thank you for sharing!!!!
Wonderful pics! Looks like so much fun. Glad she gets some time in the Galápagos- it’s amazing.
I would love to go to the Galapagos someday. Or Equador.
I was lucky to go to Costa Rica once, and that was pretty awesome. That kind of density of life is amazing.
I would love to have done what she is doing when I was her age. Now, I’m not so sure. I would love the wildlife but some other aspects I am over. We have friends that own an eco-lodge there she will stay with at end of trip. I could possibly do that.
I am old and cranky and want to sleep in a nice bed, but I’d like to think I could still suck it up for two or three nights of waking up with bugs in my sleeping bag if that meant I could share my breakfast with howler monkeys and coatamundis.
You are right. She will probably want to take me there in the future & as a photographer it would be totally worth the heat, bugs & bucket pooping.
We got her a water housing for her phone so I hope she gets some great pics there.
Thank you! How wonderful for her!
Don’t know how I missed this. What a wonderful experience!
Great pics, thanks for sharing. Hope she has a super fun and safe time!!
The Galapagos are something to see and I’m lucky and thankful that I got to go there at least once in my life.
She just got there a few hours ago & sent some pics already of the lizards that greeted her. 10 hour travel day was a little rough.