This Little turtle

This post will come with a bit of a disclaimer: I don’t normally intervene in wildlife-related situations that I come across unless I know there are professional people around that are trained in how to rescue/rehabilitate that particular type of animal. It is too easy to make mistakes, or have a negative effect, if we […]

A Day In The Life… In (and around) Ayampe!

We have been in Ayampe over a month now. Life has settled into a regular rhythm for us here. It’s a pretty chill little place. We have a great little house, plenty of food around (with lots of fresh mango, passionfruit, papaya, and bananas), and it generally only ever rains at night. The days are […]

Surf

I am laying here, still awake, in the nearly-complete darkness of five o’clock AM, listening to the sound of seventeen rhythmless four year-olds playing death metal ballads on the metal roof of our bungalow with rubber mallets. It has rained — jungle rained — all night, and for some insidious reason the architect of this […]