These unique looking creatures wandered around the jungle lodge we stayed at in North West Belize, roosting in the trees at night.

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We mainly just glimpsed or heard Spider Monkeys crashing noisily through the tree tops at Chan Chich but this chap came quite low to get a good look at us. I wasn’t prepared and should have had a much higher ISO!

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11:52 St. Patrick’s Day

Green is a cool, calm, and refreshing colour. To the human eye there is no colour so grateful as green, being a temperate and retiring, as well as a most beautiful and cheerful colour. ~W.J. & G.A. Audsley, Taste versus Fashionable Colours: A Manual for Ladies on Colour in Dress, 1863

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There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist. ~Robert Benchley

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12:52 favourite theme of 2017
Of course my favourite theme of 2017 was Nature Up Close

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