Panama 1997

To get to the Cuna Island of Panama, you first have to fly in a small plane...

...then take a small boat...


Enrique explains all that there is to see in Cunaland.

...and then they drop you off on a desert island. This is me and Jaime being castaways.

Me on the beach - Cuna Islands

Enrique models the latest Cuna fashions

All "decked" out to record Spotted Antbirds I nearly stepped on this fer-de-lance while hiking up a river bed

Jaime and I had a little water fight in the rainforest.

Why is it that herpetologists are always wet?
There are six nationalities represented in the picture: Ela - German, Tugrul - Turkish, Clara - Dominican Republic, Lily - Argentina, Me - United States, and Jaime - Spain.