It is great to be able to do this in the light. The kids are getting excited about the field trip as are Kate, Jeff, and I. Plans are to go to the other side of the island to an area that has 2000 petroglyphs, to see a coffee plantation and coffee cooperative. A highlight will be a meeting with the parrot researchers with a fun show for the kids.  These parrots are an endangered species. We will stop at a restaurant for the kids and end the trip at the beach…kids usually don’t know how to swim but we have enough adults to keep them safe!

Each of our Junior Rangers has researched an indigenous animal or plant to draw on our mural in anticipation of the upcoming field trip across the island. An electrical outage did not stop us today!

Guias Unidas is teaching the young to have an appreciation for and responsibility for their environment and as climate change becomes a looming issue for survival for the planet these efforts to teach young people their responsibility to their environment are incredibly important.

And coming home to Centro Puma where Jeff and Kate live and work. Centro Puma is a cozy restaurant in this tiny village. Jeff says “we are in this cool little town with nothing to do. Cafe Puma is our gathering place with our ecotourism guides, our educational center, where our Nicaraguans learn that they can make a living and at the same time be stewards of their land.”

Most mornings, I get a cup of coffee and walk and I am letting my photos talk for me.