Mayan Cooking

Should we learn how to do a bit of mayan cooking (traditional and modern)?

I love chaya -- it's a tropical spinach. Nummy.

Here are some more

Turkey lime soup--- mmmm

Some shrimp for Joe

Ooooh and here are more!

This one is with lima beans -- i think i'm going to try it.

This is the traditional poc-chuc

Learning a Bit About Mayan Culture

Here is a guide at Coba talking about the ball game they played. This site has a lot of information about the game as well.

And here a bunch of games you can play to learn about mayan culture.  And here is another fun site.

This site has loads of information based on mayans in guatemala.

from q

i am most excited about :

helping the turtles;
and every thing else.

Kinkajou - Cute Until It Bites Your Nose Off

Okay this guy looks pretty cute doesn't it. Natl Geo will tell you all about him.

Wikipedia has a lot about him too.

I think he is an alien because check out his tongue.

Lots of pictures here. 

Toucan

Click here to here what they sound like

Flamingoooooos

Okay i think this picture of the flamingo is really weird - doesn't it look like they are in an outline of a bird or kind of duck? This picture is very cool. Here is a little bit of info aabout flamingos? 

And a bit more. But I haven't found a great resource about flamingos yet, have you?

Where else do they live in the world other than the yucatan?

Funky Feathers

Hi -- Last week I went out on the boat to "bird island". It's a mangrove island that hundreds of birds all come back to every night. You see them streaming in over the lagoon -- all different types.  Lots of grunting, cackling, and flopping around until they get settled in for the night.

This is a picture of a juvenile reddish egret that was practicing fishing. It and his/her pal would pick up small sticks in the shallow water, sometimes grabbing from each other.  Periodically it would lift its wing like this to shade the water from the sun so it could see what might be hanging out around his feet.  (One of the cesiak-friends, Vince, took this picture).

The other picture is of an adult reddish egret. Jorge (one of the guides at cesiak that we will meet at the beginning of the trip) kept laughing and saying "funky feathers"!

So I have a question -- why does the reddish egret have such funky feathers. They seem so different than the other birds at the bird hotel.  Anyone have any ideas?

I bet when wearing bird feathers on ladies hats was in fashion, the reddish egrets were under seige!

Here is a cool site -- you can here what it sounds like and learn about it as well.