Up at 5 ish and out at 6 am onto the veranda to see what life was about. A UK biology teacher was already there watching a ferruginous pgmy owl - it looked like a small rufous addition to the branch! The other new birds we saw were the Trinidad mot mot and a northern waterthrush. At 0830, after breakfast, we went down the discovery trail with Molly our guide for our orientation walk, we were joined by another British family. We saw golden headed manakin in their ...

Up at 5am, then breakfast in our room before meeting Dennis our driver who took us on the 50-60minute drive to the airport. For the whole journey we listened to him telling us the woes of trying to get a new generator and generator parts to Rock View Lodge; Colin was beside himself as, just prior to a busy bank holiday weekend, another generator had broken down! A lorry had refused to carry a new generator and the plane was being difficult with taking the parts ....