Recent rains - it's the rainy season in this part of the world - have brought the rivers up and made them fairly muddy. It's the red mud of agricultural run-off, too. And while we tried quite hard, we were unable to find Torrent Ducks.

We couldn't schedule into Jorupe Lodge in the Jocotoco Foundation's Jorupe Lodge this first night, so we stayed in downtown Macara at the Hotel Macara. It's an intersting place; among other things, it is the home of Mona Reefer, a fairly well-known work. It also has a ton of stairways and no elevator.

We dined at a passingly strange restaurant above a very raucous bar.

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Tropical Mockingbird	Tropical Gnatcatcher	On the Bus
Striated Heron	Western Peruvian Screech Owl	Baird's Flycatcher
Peru Border at Macara	Hotel Macara Art: Mona Reefer	Camouflaged Moth