Birds, Animals, Insects
They fly upside down, backwards, swoop, fight, float, hover and each has it’s own particular personality and I have fallen in love with these tiny iridescent birds. They flap their wings about 80 times per second which makes a kind of hum and from there you get it’s name. During courtship they will flap their […]
Read MoreBaños is a beautiful city with hot springs, waterfalls and mountains on all sides but it is also an adventure town where you can race downhill by bike, climb mountains or volcanoes, soak in a hot spring, take a cable ride and party all night. It makes a terrible sticky toffee thing that stretches for […]
Read MoreThe Selva near Siona Lodge Ecuador felt more like secondary rainforest as opposed to primary but was still a beautiful place to visit. Siona lodge was on the fresh water lake with Caiman swimming underneath the lodge watching for food to be thrown out. Eoin and I fished for baby Piranha and when encouraged to […]
Read MoreI started the year off in the Amazon in Brazil where I travelled with two Argentinian guys, two Italian guys and a Brazilian guide. We chattered non stop despite the fact I did not know Italian and only had a smattering of Brazilian Portuguese, the Italians had no english and the Argentinians had no […]
Read MoreUruguay is a Guarani Indian word which means river of birds. It has the most amazing bird life from noisy green parrots nesting in the trees chattering away and eating all the plant life to the beautiful but elusive red crested Cardinal, the many yellow bellied varieties which flashed past me and the tiny […]
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Photography, Travelling, Dancing,..
