The Great Kiskadee, photo by Rich Hoeg taken at Las Catalinas.
Sketch por Markham Smith, 18 de mayo de 2013. Vista desde Las Catalinas de mar con Pitahayas Islas e Islas Catalinas.
Sketch by Markham Smith, May 18 2013. View from Las Catalinas of sea with Islas Pitahayas and Islas Catalinas.
A family of five howler monkey spent the afternoon munching some buds on the trees right in front of our Casa Teja today - providing a great photo op even for those of us without much telephoto. The papa was extremely vocal! The others - muy tranquillo. Quoting from Wikipedia "Howler monkeys are ...
Las Catalinas Climate Summary: Las Catalinas has two very distinct seasons, a wet one and a dry one. Both are quite wonderful. The dry season begins in early to mid-November and runs until about the second week of May. During this time it will barely rain at all. Humidity drops, things become quite ...
There have been some whales hanging around Las Catalinas of late - especially a mother and baby. Bob Davey took this video with a small camera from his porch in Flamingo Monday morning. Pretty cool!
Earlier this week, Luis Diego Calzada captured some video of two of Las Catalinas' Grey Foxes. We're sharing this land with some beautiful and amazing wildlife!
Perhaps the most noticeable and noteworthy land animal in Las Catalinas is the Howler Monkey. "Congos", the locals call them. They make a very deep, loud, gorilla-sounding call. The first time I heard it, I thought that surely King Kong himself was about to burst out of the forest! And then when I ...
OK, at long last I have retrieved some video from our dolphin encounter last month. This is good! Be sure to turn up the sound and listen - the dolphins' echo-location chirping was a very nice part of the experience!
My friend and extraordinary all-round beach athlete Todd Clark was kind to turn me on to this site:
Potrero is the town that borders Las Catalinas, and over the last couple of years we have become involved in local affairs, trying to help out where we can. At the end of last month the Potrero Association received a Bandera Azul award for Playa Penca. This is a national award for environmental ...
Our ace trail building crews have created a new hiking trail through the central high peaks of Las Catalinas. This is one of the most dramatic hikes you will ever experience with stunning views in all directions. The trail is generally in the open, on the ridgeline, artfully looping back and forth ...
In mid-February, just off the coast of Las Catalinas, a lucky group of passengers aboard the catamaran "Lazy Lizard" were treated to an amazing show with mother and baby Humpbacks breaching the water. The mother was much larger than the 32 foot boat. The whales seemed to be showing off for the ...
I was in Las Catalinas last week and I need to catch up on some posts related to that very enjoyable trip. On Thursday morning I was out for a hike and as I was descending from Windy Peak I heard some commotion in the trees. There were at least a dozen white-faced Monkeys making their way through ...
After an absence of several months, the rain returned to Las Catalinas last night. A steady rain fell all through the night. This is a wonderful and welcome event each year. Nature's response to this annual event is so rapid and so profound that it tends to amaze people - even though they know to ...
I'm posting here the text of a speech I gave to the League of Women Voters in Atlanta last fall. It is not about Las Catalinas - but the concepts are. In fact the story that is at the heart of it I adopted from a piece I wrote back in 2006 about an imaginary day in the Las Catalinas of the future. ...
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