· Rio Plátano VII · Camp 7 looking upriver from Isla Wahawala ·
12" x 16" / 2" x 6"   Copyright © 2002 Tony Foster

21 Feb 2001 · slowly downriver · 2 trees full of rumbustuous scarlet macaws · oropendolos in flocks · sun grebes · kingfishers · trogon · tamandua anteater swimming · spider monkeys · green macaws · king vultures · iguanas · rocks in midstream with ancient petroglyphs · camp on low-lying swampy island · first people for 10 days · 22 Feb · a dawn mist rises in pearly light promising hot · lunch at RM’s thatched house on stilts · arrive Las Marias · sleep in bunkhouse · 23 Feb · by dugout into La Mosquitia – in a canal meet MH and J in a Boston Whaler · climb to the top of a dune and see the Caribbean below · plunge in fully clad ·