Next Adventures?

Five days -- I think could include:

• Acoma
• Wolf sanctuary
• ice cave and volcano
• Stay at El Moro Cabins for this first part
• Bosque 
• I think we have to stay in Socorro, wake up at 4 for sunrise!
• Balloons – 6-th -14^th
• Ghost ranch
• tent rocks
  

Maybe stop at Sand dunes on way to boulder

Maybe?

Petroglyphs

Banadlier

Probably not enough time for:

Mesa verde

^{Chaco canyon}

Gila National Forest
32.92 N   108.68 W
This forest is home to Flammulated and Spotted Owls, Painted Redstarts and Hepatic Tanagers. Check riparian habitat along the Gila River for Common Black-Hawk.

Sandia Crest/Cibola National Forest
35.18 N   106.49 W
Watch for Black-headed Grosbeak, Hermit Thrush and Red-naped Sapsuckers. Nearer Albuquerque, the Rio Grande Nature Center State Park is a great spot for Say's Phoebe, Blue Grosbeak and Black-chinned Hummingbird.

Photos and Videos

Here are the links to the photo albums from our great Yucatan adventure:

Xcalak
Akumal
El Cuyo
Calakmul

There are also some great videos of the creatures we met:

Turtles - our first day at akumal

Whale Sharks - unbelievably, wonderful.

Nemo-- We missed seeing turtles laying eggs or the fast trek to the sea when 200 turtles escape their shells. But we did meet Nemo....a little guy with a hurt flipper. This is his walk to the ocean taking about 30 minutes…This has been significantly edited and fast forwarded at 2x the pace.  I've added some music BUT I recommend just watching it in silence to honor how hard this little guy had to work to get to the sea with his injured flipper.

Animals at Calakmul -- howler and spider monkeys are great!


Xcalak -- Great filming of a sting ray.Q is too cute at the very end.

Daniel the Manatee -- too cute. he uses his flippers to eat!


Calakmul -- This is not the temple we climbed…it's the 2nd highest but gives you the feel of the height and being surrounded by jungle. No animals, just the sense of awe as we walked the paths of many before us.

And to just give you  sense of the trip here are some other fun videos. I watch Laughter over and over and over: 


Laughter (you won't understand what we are laughing about -- but it gives you the sense of how much fun we had -- this was on a 12 km road that took us over two hours to drive because we stopped so often to look at birds and animals)

Water-Man - Ben filmed J. playing around under water -- they are great. Very mysterious looking

Jumping at the Cenote - Ben, Q and J doing jumps (and I learned how to do rewind!  This was at the Cenote Azul in Bacalar -- the most wonderful water!