Also, guides know how to best align your phone with their spotting scopes, so you get stuff like this guy:
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Costa Rican drivers seem to have a looser definition of when it is safe to pass than I do.
I want whoever scheduled a TROPICAL F'ING DEPRESSION in the eastern Pacific this week to be IN MY OFFICE at 9:00AM ET PRECISELY, and they better have a DAMN GOOD explanation for doing so. #SoWet #CloudForestNotDownpourForest #FaunaStayedHome
I would just like to say that @beckyhammer.bsky.social's suggestion here was a trip-changing one, and I, here in front of you all, send her a huge, platonic hug.
The app was key to us making the toucan sighting I *so* wanted.
We are at a flapping InterBus rest stop and we just about got hit by scarlet flocking macaws having some sort of dispute! INCREDIBLY RARE BIRDS ARE HANGING OUT IN MANGO TREES ABOUT A RESTAURANT PARKING LOT!!! WTAF?!?!?!
Young Tim tended to want to go places himself, eschewing local expertise if he could. young Tim wasn't yet wise. Current Tim booked guides at most places and was amply rewarded with all kinds of stuff he'd have missed and tons of knowledge. Here's to our WONDERFUL guides, great all of them!!
The pig is free-range within this modest bungalow hotel property. The property is heavily planted, so there are plenty of fruits falling on the ground and likely insects and plenty of shade. IOW, this seems a very happy pig.
Hotel owner: ... We have three dogs and a pig...
Me: {You had me at the three dogs, but if you are really trying to make me feel good about my choice ...}
Since @tomvanantwerp.com has made it clear that back yard chickens have limited possibilities, can I propose park chickens, @josephfray.bsky.social?
Tim Shaw
Tim Shaw
Feeling very pleased with myself for pulling off a successful day plan pivot when the weather looked like it was going to wreck things.
