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The World Economic Forum list of tourist destinations, released in early March, ranked Panama 50th with Costa Rica (44th) outscoring Panama by just six countries. The two countries were the highest ranking in Central America. The only other Latin American nations who outscored Panama were Puerto Rico (46) and Brazil (49).
The Forum’s list is based […]

This is one of the best shots I’ve ever captured! A few nights ago the moon rise here on Dolphin Bay in Bocas del Toro, Panama was absolutely stupendous!!! I ran down to the rancho at the end of our dock and took about 10 and got this one… very fine.

The cloud formations worked […]

I don’t think there is much call for search engines to find ‘cacao flesh’ but if there is someone out there looking for that instead of say dolphins or perhaps land for sale Bocas del Toro, then here’s a hit!
We all enjoy the flesh of a ripe cacao pod down here on the farm, […]

this post is mostly for family and friends who keep asking for pics of the boyz…well, here’s a fine one of Zuul and JensenBlu that’s only a week old or so.

and here’s a great one of JensenBlu  - he’s about 6 weeks old here.

another year of saving and slaughtering has come and gone. I’ve no hard statistics to back up my claim, but it appears that the slaughterers are outpacing the savers. And now some of them are on our doorstep, looking to capture wild dolphins to put on display for the profit margins of the few…
More than […]

I’m sure if JensenBlu had a choice he’d much prefer this photo than the one I posted a few days ago when he was only hours old. He’s dressed better and looks cuter… funny how you come into the world the same way you go out - wrinkled, blotchy and dressed in little more than […]

Well, after nine months in production and countless back and leg massages, our second son has arrived! JensenBlu came into the world at 10:21am Sunday morning at 6lbs. 12 oz. All is well with mother and son and we should be back on the farm by Saturday.

It is with disappointment and some shame that i report to you of a great tragedy that is beginning to unfold in the waters of Dolphin Bay. The government of Panama has decreed that the capture of live wild dolphins within it’s national waters is perfectly reasonable and should be encouraged by law.
Guess who’s […]

well, another fresh and sunny christmas has come and gone here on the farm. Still feels weird for me to be having christmas during what to me seems likes mid summer. We had lights and there was one or two boxes with wrapping, but I need to be in winter to really be in christmas […]

if this was 13 yrs ago i’d be telling you how yet again i find myself sitting in a run down hotel in a medium size Central American city writing in my notebook about what i have seen in the streets below. I’d speak about kids drinking Coca-Cola from sandwich bags in front of a tin shack […]