Year of the Mango:
Hanging out by the yuppie pool...we only get to go there once every three months...
Year of the Mango:
Rainbow over Machala at dusk
Year of the Mango:
WHY IS SHE LETTING IT BITE HER FINGER?!? Crazy biologist...
Year of the Mango:
What hiking at 120% humidity looks like...
Year of the Mango:
The view from our room in Zaruma, over coffee plantations, cloud forrest...and gold mines.
Year of the Mango:
Humming bird feeder, not a bird bath.
Year of the Mango:
So this is what the birds and the bees are about!
Year of the Mango:
Hanging tropical loveliness
Year of the Mango:
Texture
Year of the Mango:
Batman utility belt! Camera and binoculars at the ready!
Year of the Mango:
Climbing up
Year of the Mango:
Nature's designs
Year of the Mango:
Holy leaves
Year of the Mango:
Heading to the cloud forest
Year of the Mango:
The biologist photographing bugs...in character.
Year of the Mango:
Sunset over the cathedral at Machala
Year of the Mango:
Looking out over banana plantations as we head up the mountain
Year of the Mango:
Wish me luck!
Year of the Mango:
Climbing up to the top of cascadas de Manuel
Year of the Mango:
Wading up to the falls, all eight levels of them!
Year of the Mango:
Hiking through the roots
Year of the Mango:
Top of the falls
Year of the Mango:
Jungle steam
Year of the Mango:
Cascadas de Manuel
Year of the Mango:
On the hike to the cascadas
Year of the Mango:
Dew drops
Year of the Mango:
Biologist with fungi.
Year of the Mango:
Cascadas de Mañuel, just 40 minutes from Machala.
Year of the Mango:
Do you know where your bananas come from? They are all grown in plastic bags to reduce bugs...plastic that ends up all over the Ecuadorian countryside...
Year of the Mango:
Gringa in the mangroves
