Friday, November 20, 2009

Wildlife on the coast

Beautiful wild Ventanilla beach...,no hotels!

Crocodile in an enclosure...but there were plenty in the river too!

This is a marine turtle.

This little island is a bird nesting area.


River full of crocodiles....

While on the coast we took a couple of fun excursions...one on a boat to see marine life (turtles and dolphins were all over the place), and another was an afternoon visiting the community of Ventanilla, a tiny coastal ecotourism cooperative that was one of the most impressive projects I've ever seen (that includes projects I've seen during my Peace Corps years!).

1 comment:

  1. So natural!! I will show these to Dad next week when he returns. He will love these pictures. How close where you to the crocodile? Is that a whale in the following picture? Thanks for sharing.

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