Friday, December 12, 2008

Panama's Plants & Animals

One of the many things that Doug and I love about traveling is the different plants and animals that you find in other areas of the world. They are simply amazing. Of course we also enjoy attempting to capture them on film. Sadly we never quite do them justice.

Here is just a taste of some of God's creation in Panama:




These beautiful birds are Amazon parrots. Not only were they gorgeous but they had a beautiful song. We greatly enjoyed looking for them all over the country. This trip we also spied our first Toucan in the wild but he was too quick to catch on film.





Doug found this fella out in the Pearl Islands:



Camden found this puffer fish on the beach one day:



We enjoyed these monkeys. Well, all of us except Doug. They tried to steal his sunglasses TWICE, right off his face. Cam & I were chuckling. But let's just say Doug had a few other choice words for the cute little monkeys. "Hey, you little..." :)
These bats were right outside the door of the old canal house that we stayed in at Gamboa. We couldn't believe they were just out in the open.

These are howler monkeys. They make quite an amazing sound. When you are alone walking in a dense rainforest it almost sounds like something out of a horror flick. This is absolutely one of our favorite things to do...hiking in the rainforest looking for animals.

This is a mother with a little baby clinging to her back. So cute!

This little snake completely freaked me out. I walked right next to it thinking it was a stick. Doug loved it and as he does with most snakes (at least the ones we know aren't poisonous) he plays a bit with him. Ugh..this gives me such anxiety when he does this.

These were at an Orchid farm:

Ahh! Look at that sweet face. He actually jumped on to our boat for a banana.


It's a huge gourd (or something)!
This is a hanging flower, they were quite large.
This peacock was showing off for the chick that was in the cage with him.

Here are more of the plants & animals we enjoyed in Panama:



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