This place is massively popular and it would be bedlam and no doubt catastrophic for the turtles if not very carefully and strictly managed. I dread to think what will happen when people fom a certain part of the world invade...
The boat ride meandering along the waterways early this morning was great but marred by my camera failing. Memo to
@RooFlyer and others who may have also bought a Sony HX90V camera: based on my experience in Belize a couple of years ago, and again today, it has a serious deficiency in not being able to handle high humidity. The symptoms were the same each time: switch on, lens partly extends, screen message says ‘turn off and on again’. Do that to no avail about three times, then it becomes totally unresponsive while still partly open.
Fortunately I also brought my previous Lumix as backup - but that didn’t help while on the boat ride as it was back in my bag. Now charging. Phone photos barely suffice as soon as any zoom is applied.
After keeping the Sony in my pocket to warm it and taking out the battery and putting it back in, it now seems to be working again. But, of course, I can no longer trust it while in the tropics.
The wildlife sightings were good. I was particularly p!ssed off to not get the emerald lizard (aka ‘Jesus lizard’ owing to its ability to seemingly walk on water by running incredibly fast) and the displaying tiger herons in better quality and closer-up.
Going for a walk in the rainforest in about an hour and another boat trip this afternoon.
Rain pouring down now. It’s not called rainforest for no reason...
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. But aren’t all babies cute?
