July 2009 Archives

Hello people, I'm reporting from Panama and having a great time. The first place we went was Los Quetzales Lodge. The owner, Carlos, was really nice and when we got there, he showed us around and told us everything about the place. Carlos then took us to his barn, where there were ten little puppies. They were labs and they were absolutely adorable. They were only a month old and sooooooooo cute. It was fun because we got to hold and pet them. They would also bite your ankles because they were teething (but it didn't hurt).  

Hello everyone in cyberspace. We've left Costa Rica and are now in Panama, in another cloud forest. We stayed at the Los Quetzales Lodge. When we got there, we met the owner named Carlos, who told us about the place and took us to see ten Labrador puppies that were only one month old. He let us play with them as much as we wanted, which was great. Later we went up to our cabin, which was out deep into the cloud forest. To get there, we needed a four-wheel drive because the road was so bumpy and full of huge potholes. The cabin was really cool because it had a wrap-around porch you could go out on to watch for animals and birds.  

The next day, our guide Jonathan brought us out on a walk through the woods and we got to see plants, waterfalls, and birds. That night, we put some bananas out on the feeders and we got to see a few mammals we had never seen before--the cacomistles and kinkajous, when they came to feed. A cacomistle looks like a little tree raccoon and a kinkajou is unique. Not only did the kinkajou eat all the bananas off two feeders, as it that wasn't enough, it then drank everything from the hummingbird feeders!