Views....

We began to open up the view from the living room this trip. Well, ok, when we say we, we mean the crew.

Alverro is actually the guy up in the tree slicing off limbs with his machette. He was the guy who more than a year ago showed Dick and Jim how to use a machette properly.

As you can see, we have a lot more to open up. The trick is to preserve the trees while thinning the folliage. To the right is a lot of bejuco vine, so once that is out we can make other choices of limbs to remove. We figure this process will take the better part of the next year, removing a little more each trip.

You've seen this before in one of the other posts. This is looking out at the partially cleared view where now you can see the banana plantation, along with the illegal airfield in the middle for the illegal crop sprayer.

That plane takes off every morning at 5:11am. As you can see, that strip isn't far, and the plane noise is loud.

Alazan community along with our neighbors are actively working to stop this illegal activity.

In this last photo, now that we can see further out, Dick noticed this bee hive in the tree in the distance. Look carefully at the center. Then scroll down to see the zoomed in view.

Note that limb over the top. That is an old mature Gianazzo limb that is at least a foot thick. So this hive is pretty doggone big!

No worries, it is a good long way off from our living room so no bees headed our way. But interesting to see this in nature. In many more populated areas these would be removed. We'll leave it be, and see how it evolves.

Thanks for reading our post!

Ricardo y Jeeeem