Honduras - 2009

The little train that accesses the wildlife reserve, working its way through banana and coconut plantations. The track has been in use for 90 odd years, and still operates largely for its original purpose of transporting produce.

Two boys from the Garífuna village near the park.

Really, it is! The photo is not great, but it reminds us. We actually saw it quite well, munching away at the surface vegetation. When it saw us, it left with a big splash. Oh, btw, a manatee is sort-of a sea-cow, well sort-of. A mammal, weighing up to 600kg, looking like a very rotund seal.

A gorgeous heron watches us warily as we glide by in a canoe.

We canoed up a section of river known as the mirror trail. With good reason.

A different sort to the ones we saw in Costa Rica (brown instead of green). However, still with that distinctive head.

An idyllic scene at Cayos Cochinos, off the Caribbean coast of Honduras.

A pair of scarlet macaws stuff themselves on snacks left out by rangers at the Copán Ruins.

Jo imagines herself to be a Mayan ruler looking down at her imaginary loyal subjects. We were early in the Copán ruins site, and had most of it to ourselves for much of the time.