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Mahaica River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I went to the Mahaica River this morning for some fun birding – it was quite the adventure! Mellisa picked me up at 4:15 AM, then we rode with Celia and her husband Tesfaye for a rather harrowing ride in the dark to the river, about 1.5 hours from town. We spent a couple of hours on a boat with Mahaica River Tours and saw some cool birds (the Hoatzin, the national bird was the highlight) and some red howler monkeys! After a good home-cooked breakfast of fresh roti bread, fresh-caught mackerel, and a smoked eggplant dish called choka, we headed back into town – what a fun morning! It was beautiful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hoatzin <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mellisa, Celia, and Tesfaye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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With Mellisa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Breakfast with guide\/owner Ramesh – it reminded me of Costa Rica!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Typical house along the river<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Beautiful sunrise (note the sliver of the moon) on the drive to the river<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tuesday was Veterans\u2019 Day, so Mellisa and I went for an early morning walk with some birding at the national park. It was lovely! We saw a lot of herons and egrets. The park has a nice paved pathway. We treated ourselves to a Starbucks coffee afterwards. We also went out for breakfast on Saturday at The Bistro, which was nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I finished reading \u201cVladimir\u201d and started \u201cThe Life and Loves of a She-Devil\u201d by Fay Weldon. John and I finished \u201cThe Asset\u201d and enjoyed \u201cAll Her Fault.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John is the Charg\u00e9 this week and he attended a few events – here are a couple of photos! In the first one, he\u2019s sitting across the aisle from the President (not shown in this photo).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I went to the Mahaica River this morning for some fun birding – it was quite the adventure! Mellisa picked me up at 4:15 AM, then we rode with Celia and her husband Tesfaye for a rather harrowing ride in the dark to the river, about 1.5 hours from town. We spent a couple of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7941,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930\/revisions\/7941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}