The Storm

Once again the blog software has decided to rotate the format of my journal page. I guess I'm gonna hafta send an e-mail to blogspot.
So, the rain continues for the third day, and the winds, which were quite gusty yesterday reached epic proportions last night. Power was cut to the entire town, and was not back up until around 10 am this morning. It was starting to look like a worthless boring day when Debbie, from San Antonio, who I met on the bus coming up here, showed up; and even though pretty much everything in town was shut, we agreed to try the Jaguar Trail at the Children's Eternal Forest. This was open, and had a beautiful viewpoint. We didn't see much wildlife because of the weather until the last couple of minutes when we stumbled upon three white faced squirrel monkeys, a toucanet, and a motmot. Then we stopped for lunch at Stella's Bakery, and walked the 4 km back to Santa Elena. Considering the way the day started, it turned out quite nice. Oh, and if you were ever wondering what all of those nickels and dimes kids collected to save the rain forest, this would be it, and I think they did a mighty fine job.