Collared aracari toucans caught in a face-off in Costa Rica.
Photographing toucans in Costa Rica is much like photographing birds that may come to a bird feeder at your home. One difference in Costa Rica is the bird feeders can be tall as a telephone pole. The bird feeder at our lodge required two large stalks of bananas daily to entice the toucans, parrots and other colorful birds common to Costa Rica to pose for photographers.
Mangrove trees at low tide near Port Douglas, Australia
Travel plans were once again befuddled by the South Pacific cyclones. This time it was Marcus, which turned out to be the strongest, most destructive cyclone to strike Australia in over ten years. Huge trees were toppled in Darwin, north of us. We only suffered from severe rain. Fifteen inches of it, in a single day. That was enough to cancel all tours to the Great Barrier Reef. Continue reading