Life in a different World

Like most of our recent birding days this one started very early. Before sunrise Kadizzle was up and trying to find coffee.  Wandering around in the dark in the jungle can be very serious.  We are actually in an area where the fur de lance lives.  It is one of the most deadly snakes on the planet.  Step on one,  and in the next three steps you will be dead.  Kadizzle managed not to encounter the snake.

On our way out to the adventure we came across a young student about ten heading to school.  He flagged us down and requested a ride.  We obliged, and then came his two sisters, next his mother and a small child. Further down the road the mother said there's my baby.  Two teenage kids were carrying a three month old.  We got the baby in the van and had most of the family that consisted of seven children.  All the kids were so nice to see in their school uniforms, and it was such a pleasure to help them.

After a long day of exploring Mayan ruins and birding we returned.  As luck would have it there was the young man and his two sisters trudging up the hill.  Again we picked them up.  As we rode toward their home one exclaimed that is my dad. Dad was walking out to meet the kids, so now we picked up dad and gave the family a ride home.  Children are so well behaved, and so cute around here you cannot help by love them.  They are so unspoiled.  Kadizzle could not imagine a little band of American kids walking to school down a jungle road and taking care of each other so well.