January 8-11, 2018 - Tulúm, Mexico CAMPING at PANCHO VILLA (3 years 6 months)

Our new camp was a huge area right on the beach with lots of shade from the palm trees.  My little monkey felt right at home!  

So here, Kadin LOVES his shrimp and wanted me to take a picture of it but wanted to close his eyes and hide his face.  Grr.  BUT HE IS SOOOO CUTE!!!

We took a boat ride out to a reef, so that I could go snorkeling and Kadin could be on a boat.  I think he was more excited than I was!

Kadin watches me in the water, as I come up from snorkeling to check in on him.  He was as happy as a fish in the sea!

Kadin preferred staying closer to shore where the breaking waves were but would occasionally swim out beyond the breakers and just float around.

Hard to capture the view from our tent in a shaded grove of palm trees right on the beach.
No naked monkeys to be seen (I think he was asleep).

Yay!  Coatis playing at the entrance to the Tulúm ruins.

Kadin was tired and possibly bored for most of the exploring of the ruins.  It made a lot more sense that night when he fell asleep at 7pm with a fever.  Fortunately, he was back to his energetic self the next day.

Definitely, the iguanas were a favorite at the ruins!

January 6, 2016 - January 12, 2016 - 17 months and 4 weeks

It's so hard to just pick a few photos when you have 300 of them to choose from!!  I did my best…

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We left Monte Verde and headed to "Grampa Ninja's", a B&B, in the small town of Barrance, just outside of Punta Arenas.  Fun spot with rolling farmland hills and pretty cliffs by the beach.  Kadin really liked the pool and the cows.

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We also went to one of my favorite beaches, Playa Doña Ana, where Kadin had his first encounter with the ocean and crashing waves.  Huge smiles and laughs as I held him up in the waves, letting the foaming swell slosh him around.

The Pizote, also known as a Coati - they were at the entrance to the beach.

 As we left the beach, we saw a bunch of Capuchin Monkeys (Mono Carablanca) playing in a wooded grove.  They were about 6 feet from me.  I had to keep Kadin a safer distance away or he would have run off to join them!

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Next, we traveled down the coast to see the crocodiles at the Tarcoles River and then to visit the Carara National Park.  While we were hiking, we had a torrential downpour that lasted about 20 minutes – it was super refreshing considering how overheated we had been earlier that morning!

How many crocodiles do you see??

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We packed up and continued traveling south, to the town of Quepos.  

I taught Kadin how to "toast" with the Spanish phrase, "chin chin".  He loves it!