Equator

I'm sitting on the equator or so this monument thinks. When GPS first became available to civilians, I bought one and was headed to the Amazon to do some exploring when I decided to go to the place pictured to see how accurate this line really was. When I got there I found that I was some 80 yards north of the actual 00 00 00. I got a cab and had the driver take me to the real equator. When we got their, a side walk just outside a brick factory, I told the driver what we had done and he freaked and jumped out of the cab and started telling people on the street what we had accomplished. Soon we had a crowd of towns folk jumping up and down yelling in spanish "we're at the real Equator"!!!!!............... .

Witches Rock and Olie North

In the first movie about surfing seen around the world "Endless Summer" one of the places featured in that film was hear at Witches Rock. Most days there is a beautiful right breaking tube that is wonderful to ride. Not today. Behind my right shoulder is Olie's point. Behind which Reagan and Oliver North launched some their clandestine attacks on Nicaragua. I was there to talk to an old cowboy who remembers those days.

Me and an Embera friend

A couple of months ago a friend of mine from Panama told I had to meet his son and let him show me how much he knew about the jungle along the upper Chagres river. We took his father's big cargo dugout up to a trail head where kid took me to see his favorite spot to fish for Juapote.

Alligator Hole River Manatee rescue

Some time ago I was contacted (I was in Ghana) by folks from the U.S. and Jamaica who wanted me to rescue a land locked manatee in Jamaica. Others had tried but had failed. I got together with a group local guys from the Alligator Hole river area and government folks and two veterinarians from Sea World. These manatees were not like manatees I had worked with in Florida, Central America and Puerto Rico. They didn't like people at all and had caves up under the vegetation along the river banks that they would hide in. They also new how to avoid nets by either going around, under or though them. After taking stock of the situation I decided to set a trap for the one I was after using the same method I had used in Africa to catch hippo. The one I was after had been tied by the tail in the middle of the river when it was very young. As it grew the rope broke loose from its' anchor but remained tight around the girls tail. It embedded its' self into the manatee's flesh. When we got her on the beach we removed the rope weighed her (1200 pounds) and took some blood for DNA stuff.

My wine people from Chile

My favorite wines come from Chile. Me with my wine freinds. Santa Cruz is it!

Large bugs

Its' time we talked.

The product of an 80 ft. free dive in the Virgin pass between St. Thomas and Culebra Island. Two dinners and three lunches. The reason I was here is that I was hired as a biological consultant by the Governor of Puerto Rico to use the Endangered Species Act to remove the U.S. Navy from Culebra Island. I did and they left.