Cuban tree frog?

Humming bird

Butterfly

Howler Monkey

Hey guys J here.

Sorry I haven't written in awhile. Ben kind of busy/lazy this weekend. We were here with a skeleton crew and were house/dog/cat sitting for some folks. It was pretty nice to have a cat in the bed again. The dog is still being house trained so that wasn't nearly as nice. He did look alot like George though Trent, so at least he was cute. We definitely get our exercise here walking up and down these hills. I have no idea what the grade is but I know you can't go any higher than 2nd gear and actually go anywhere. I found it pretty amazing that all we had to do was go up the mountain to the next tier of houses to find a completely different set of wildlife. Different butterfly species lots of lizards like Basilisks and this other kind that seems to have touretts. I'm serious, every time they stop walking they start shaking their front feet like they are waving at you. Lots of rain. Apparently this is the beginning of the rainy season which mean instead of rain 1-2 times a week it rains 5-6 days a week. Not like afternoon showers back home either. It's the rain forest for a reason which means they get over 200 inches of rain a year for those of you who didn't know what actually makes something a rain forest. Saw some sweet howler monkeys as you saw in the pics above. Name is pretty self explanatory, because they are really loud. Every time a car drives by the jungle seems to explode with this horrible....howling. They are pretty fun to watch though. especially the ones with babies riding around. NH finally got to go snorkeling the other day. Rimas took us out to the really good reef this time. Which means we had to swim out like a quarter mile at least. On the way out I stopped and turned around one time and thought to myself. Yeah if a shark bit me I would totally bleed out before I could get to shore, let alone a hospital. After all my whining and complaining and nearly drowning I made it. Last but not least. Once i got there though all the fatigue seemed to instantly drain from my body as I saw some of the best reefs I have ever seen. P.S. I've snorkeled the Great Barrier Reef so when i say this it actually means something. I have to work on my deep diving though. I was having a little trouble with my mask and the pressure in your ears is pretty painful as you go down if you don't have an effective way to equalize the pressure. Even though I stayed mostly near the surface it was still freaking awesome. I didn't take many pics because its really hard to focus on something when you aren't able to stay still. I took a few more videos but wont be posting those because they are too long. It felt really good when we got back to shore though. It wasn't until then that I realized our feet hadn't touched solid ground for an hour and a half. Never knew I could tread water that long. Glad to have Trent finally following along and posting. Hopefully this will motivate me to blog more now that I don't feel like this is a give only relationship. Seriously people we want you to post every once in awhile. It's kind of disheartening to log on and feel like nobody is reading this stuff. Especially when I make up complicated equations that relate to everyday life. Ok putting my soap box aside. Looks like I'm heading into ceiba tomorrow to do some grocery shopping. We are running dangerously low on supplies. And by dangerously low I mean I'm tired of peanut butter sandwiches for 3 meals a day. More to come.

J

P.S. I shaved today for the first time in 2 months. NH's jaw dropped when she saw me. Swears I look 12 years old.