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Minca

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In town

Santa Marta Cathedral

April 2014

Joyful encounter

Santa Marta
April 30, 2014

Exchanging emails

Santa Marta
April 30, 2014

Fish

Santa Marta
April 30, 2014

Guacamaya

Macaw
At Hernando's house
Santa Marta
April 30, 2014

Parrot in a hole

Macaw
At Hernando's house
Santa Marta
April 30, 2014

Coca

Colombian Coca - (Erythroxylum novogranatense)
At Hernando's house
Santa Marta
April 30, 2014

Turtle

Santa Marta
May 6, 2014

Miami in Santa Marta

Hotel Miami
Santa Marta
April 30, 2014

The view from Miami

Santa Marta Cathedral from the roof of Hotel Miami
Santa Marta
April 30, 2014

Party!

Carlos Arturo's birthday
Hotel Miami
Santa Marta
April 30, 2014

Statue in the circle

Santa Marta
April 30, 2014

Leaves and buds

Santa Marta
April 30, 2014

Selfie with sunglasses

Santa Marta
April 30, 2014

Donde Chucho

Donde Chucho restaurant
Santa Marta
Photo by Andres Mendez

Kayaking

Bob kayaking

April 30, 2014

Camouflage

Sand crab

Mamancana

Mamancana pool

Mamancana
May 4, 2014

Darwin tries to relax

Mamancana
May 4, 2014

Cielo de bonga

Mamancana
May 4, 2014

Mango chutney in banana cup

Mamancana
May 4, 2014

What I did not eat

Mussels
Mamancana
May 4, 2014

Unfortunately, I appear to have a food allergy to mollusc so they gave me double portion of another dish.

Bees

Mamancana
May 4, 2014

Bamboo wall

Mamancana
May 4, 2014

Mamancana trail

Remarkably, this trail doubles as a bicycle race path.
Mamancana
May 4, 2014

Bonga bark

Mamancana
May 4, 2014

When cactus pretend to be cupcakes

Cactus flower
Mamancana
May 4, 2014

In search of Tock

Tick
Mamancana
Andres was attacked (or maybe atticked) along the trail.
May 4, 2014

Minca

Mango

Minca, Colombia
May 6, 2014

Picked up from the ground, this was one of the most delicious mangos, ever.
In fact, there were ripe and rotting mangos everywhere and much of Minca smelled of mango.

This reminded me of when I was a kid and we had a mango tree in the yard.
When they were ripe, Alan would go outside and gorge himself on the fruit with the juice running down his face.
At the time, I thought both mangos and this ritual were disgusting.
Now I realize how much I was missing out on. :D

Africa in Colombia

Guinea fowl

When we arrived in Minca, one of the first things we encountered was a pair of African Guinea fowl.
Apparently, there are fairly common. Apparently, they are kept among the chickens and help to protect them, (as well as making good eating.)
I say "kept", but all these birds range freely.

Colibri at rest

Hummingbird
Minca
May 5, 2014

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Spath
Minca
May 6, 2014

Hacienda Cincinnati
Coffee

Bean bags

Hacienda Cincinnati
Minca, Colombia
May 6, 2014

Coffee flower

Hacienda Cincinnati
Minca, Colombia
May 6, 2014

Caffeine in situ

Hacienda Cincinnati
Minca, Colombia
May 6, 2014

Beans!

Hacienda Cincinnati
Minca, Colombia
May 6, 2014

Bananas

Hacienda Cincinnati
Minca, Colombia
May 6, 2014

Although this is ostensibly a traditional coffee plantation, they apparently make more money off of the sale of bananas.

Butterfly

Hacienda Cincinnati
Minca, Colombia
May 6, 2014

Variegated

Rose
Hacienda Cincinnati
Minca, Colombia
May 6, 2014

Pozo Azul

Roberto azul

Minca, Colombia
May 6, 2014
Photo by Andres Mendez

I'm pretty sure azul refers to the color of my skin after a few seconds of immersion, rather than the color of the water.

Taganga

View from above

Taganga, Colombia
May 5, 2014

This is where we the dive boat left from to go scuba diving

Irotama

Lagarto

Irotama

Green iguana

May, 2014
Irotama

Splash

May 3, 2014
Irotama

Swimming iguana

May 3, 2014
Irotama

Iguana in water

May 3, 2014
Irotama

Iguana and grackle

May, 2014
Irotama

Creeped out

Long-tailed Woodcreeper (Deconychura longicauda)
May, 2014
Irotama

Chimango caracara

May, 2014
Irotama

This looks good

Chimango caracara (Milvago chimango)
May, 2014
Irotama

Bird

May 3, 2014
Irotama

Statue

May 3, 2014
Irotama

Darwin, Darwin, and Bob

At the shopping center near Irotama, there was a grocery store with two check-out clerks named Darwin and Candida.
Although this is a picture of Darwin, he is also a "fun guy."
May, 2014
Irotama
Photo by Andres Mendez

What we are missing

May, 2014
Irotama

With tremendous thanks to Andres Mendez for being an outstanding traveling companion and host!
Also thanks to Hernando for our kayak outing.

modified: December 31, 2015
created: May 17, 2014 (from tayrona.html)
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