Woods & QP,

We could use a little of that ice down here!  I had #30 lotion on yesterday, spent a couple hours in the surf, & POOF - Mr. White Pasty Minnesota becomes Lobster Man.  We're a little on the sore side today as we head into the jungle to make like Tarzan on those zip lines.

No lightning so far, Woods.  It's still the dry season.  The weather seems unchanging.  Sun comes up, you get your activity in, sun quickly becomes overbearing by 9am or so, so you look for intermittent relief in shady spots.  By 10 or 11am it is brutal!  The surf merely provides deceiving relief.  It cools you off but those rays continue to work on you.  Balmy afternoon breezes deceive you, too, offering the same effect.  It's kind of neat watching the palm fronds wave around & a variety of hawk-like sea birds ride the thermals up & down the cliffs.  Lots of pelicans & hummingbirds, too.

Anyway, each day sort of repeats itself but no storms to report.  My oldest boy swears that it rained like crazy a couple nights ago.  He's been sleeping outdoors on the veranda in a hammock.  Says the "torrential downpour" drove him indoors and that he had to "side-step all of the cantaloupe-sized frogs" that had gathered underneath him!  You couldn't prove ANY of it by me.  If it rained, it got absorbed pretty quickly.  The numerous fans throughout the open-air type house droned out any sound from the outside, save the occasional screech of some kind of bird.

So far I've bought a hammock (like the one my boy sleeps in) for $20 ($150 or so in the USA) and a "jungle hat", so as to travel distinctively on my next trip into the Q.  Canoejack will appreciate the logo & name of "Imperial" on the front of the hat.

Adios, for now,


Jimbo