Fer-de-Lance
This is a young Mapipire Balsin or Fer-de-Lance or Lance Head Viper. It is a pit viper like a rattle snake and is responsible for the most venemous bite in South and Central America.
This is a young Mapipire Balsin or Fer-de-Lance or Lance Head Viper. It is a pit viper like a rattle snake and is responsible for the most venemous bite in South and Central America.
This is a study of Jeremy in his natural habitat of tormenting trees that have fallen across trails.
This is (from left) Sheldon, Dane, Andy and me, (Courtenay in the blue bending). We had just finished a day of clearing abandoned cocoa and coffee trees preparing for the jungle camp. This jungle camp will start early 2007 and visitors will get to construct an Amerindian village.
This is from left Frank, Bob and I hiking from Artist Point. I am wearling my Buff head gear in the scary movie mode, it looks funny and get teased for it but it works very well.
This is Fran Farell, publisher of National Geographic Adventure Magazine stked after his second run of riverboarding.
This is taken the day before I photographed the Toucan. I was leading an Elder Trek group, the youngest in the group was about 70 and they tackled a very muddy, slippery path to get to the cave. It just shows the adventurous spirit never dies if you have it. The Tamana Cave tour to see thousands of bats up close and personal has become one of my most popular tours, though it is usually much more popular after the tour is done, where as before the tour people are a bit reluctant.
I took this photo digiscoping from Asa Wright Nature Centre's balcony. This day we saw over a dozen Toucans which is very unusual.
Here Michele gets a bit of revenge with Mollie as they negotiate a tight 180 degree turn in the Caroni swamp, later we discovered that if we would have gone straight we would have poped out into a lake 100 meters ahead. After this Mollie had a big green leaf stuck to her back for the next hour.
This is Michele Rossolo and Mollie Petersen as we explore new areas of Caroni Swamp.
Kristin, Doug, Jessica, Dave, Rick, Leah and Sheldon hike through rainforest to Pettie Marianne Waterfall
This is the REI Trinidad and Tobago Adventure Gang at Pettite Marianne Watertfall.
Standing: Dave, Rick, Jes, Kris, and Dane (Bare backed)
Sitting: Ron, Leah, Tammy and Tonya in front and Sheldon, Jessie and me in blue, Mike is taking the photo
Here Mike Townsend is riding down Mt Harris trail in Trinidad's Central Range, this was only moments after and ballerina like endo (I came to that conclusion after Leah, his wife, described it.) the trail was the muddiest and slipperiest that I have ever seen it.
This is Kristin and friend, a moth catapillar called a Frangipani Catapillar because it feeds on the leaves of the very poisonous Frangipani tree.
Dane took this photo of me surf kayaking in Grande Riverre while on tour with REI.
Enjoying the view from Tamana Hill's summit is Tonya (blue), Leah, Kristin, Jessica and Doug. They smile because the do not know what they are about to encoounter in the cave.
One of the family groups of bats in Tamana Cave. Estimates of numbers of bats in this cave is anything from 500,000 to 3 million, its a small cave so even the small number is a huge number.
