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A rework of one of my old shot with new techniques and new ideas. On the Road to Punta Allen, a remote and hard to find peninsula in the Yucatan. Just halt the car to admire caribbean landscape like this... One cannot be surprised to find some pirates burying their treasure somewhere.
This Parulid warbler species breeds in the eastern United States. The bird is here on its winter holidays in the Caribbean. Habitat preference is for coniferous and swampy forests.
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This is a Yucatan endemic. Habitat ranges from semi-arid scrubland to humid woodland edge. Prefers areas with dense understorey.
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The American redstart is a member of the parulid warbler family and is unrelated to the Old World redstarts. It is a widespread breeder in North American, migrating south in winter.
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A tribute to the mighty Permit (Palometa) in Punta Allen, Mexico. Anglers from around the world travel to this tiny Mayan village for an opportunity to try to catch one of these elusive beauties on a fly rod.
Taken from a boat. The fast shutter speed stopped movement, ISO800 was chosen due to the gloomy location in mangroves. The species breeds from southern Mexico to Brazil.
Tropenspottdrossel
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We organized a casting competition for our awesome guides in Punta Allen Mexico last year. This is one of them. They are all absolutely amazing casters.
Both the double-crested cormorant and the neotropical cormorant (N. brasilianum) are found in Yucatan; they are distinguished by the amount of bare yellow skin on the face (more extensive in double-crested) and the more slender build of the neotropical.
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An intense soccer match in Punta Allen, Mexico brings the small Mayan village of roughly 500 residents together.
The excitement level is high on the morning walk to the dock to board Panga's for a day of fly fishing on Ascension Bay. (Punta Allen, Mexico).
Species breeds at a limited number of locations around the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean.
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Rötelreiher
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Its not so much your words
that I hold with quickened hands
Its not so much the distance
that carries my mind away~
There is so much blue in you
as azul as the deepest day
there is so much blue
so much blue in you….
Im hung on a single stem
on which ture petals close in
a strong and sturdy stem
on which hearts could bloom
only not too soon
definetly not to soon….
There is so much blue in you
as azul as the deepest day
there is so much blue
just hold on,
hold onto all that blue….
Pino Carrola
A tribute to the mighty Permit (Punta Allen, Mexico). One of the toughest fish to catch on a fly rod without question. People travel from all over the world to this tiny village for a shot at catching one of these amazing fish.
Widespread breeding species in North America, overwinters in Central and South America.
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Rotschwanz-Waldsänger
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The bird is named after its call. Breeds North America, the Caribbean and the Pacific coast of South America.
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Nikon D3300, 150-500mm lens: 500mm / 2500th / f11 / iso800
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Sian Ka'an...internet on and off
Sian Ka’an Facts
* Largest protected area in the Mexican Caribbean (approximately 1.3 million acres)
* Established January 20th 1986 as part of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Program
* UNESCO World Heritage Site
* Unique for its geography and wetlands
* 23 known archeological sites (with relics dating up to 2,300 years old)
* 103 known mammal species
* 336 known bird species
* Nesting ground for many species of wading birds
* Annual rainfall between 44 and 48 inches
* Important nesting site for two endangered sea turtle species
* Believed to be inhabited in the Pre-Classic and Classic Periods in the chieftanships of Cohuah and Uaymil
* Currently home to over 2,000 inhabitants
The Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve was established on the 20th of January 1986 by presidential decree (under President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado) and became part of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) program that same year. In 1987 the reserve was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. As part of the MAB program, Sian Ka’an faces the greatest challenge of conservation: to find a way to integrate human activities without compromising other forms of life contained within its boundaries.
Sian Ka’an is approximately 1.3 million acres in size and spans 120 kilometers from north to south (comprising almost one third of the Caribbean coast of Mexico). In 1994 an area of over 200,000 acres to the south of the Reserve was named a Protected area of Flora and Fauna of Uaymil, increasing the continuous area of protected land.
The reserve contains three large core zones where human activity is limited by permission to scientific research. These areas, known as the Zonas Nucleares of Muyil, Cayo Culebras, and Uaymil, cover a total area of almost 700,000 acres. Low-impact human activities and sustainable development occur in the area of the reserve known as the buffer zone. The human population is estimated at 2,000 inhabitants, the majority of which are located in the coastal regions, especially in the fishing villages of Punta Allen and Punta Herrero. Approximately one percent of the land within the reserve is privately owned.
There are five entrances to the reserve, located at Pulticub, Santa Teresa, Chumpón, Chunyaxché and Chac Mool. Guards employed by the governmental SEMARNAP organization are stationed at every entrance to enforce the Reserve regulations.
"Sian Ka’an" is translated from Mayan as "where the sky is born" or "gift from the sky". The reserve is thought to have been inhabited in the pre-Classic and Classic periods as part of the chieftanships of Cohuah and Uaymil. There are twenty-three known archeological sites inside the reserve. Discoveries of human remains, ceramic pieces, and other artifacts have been dated up to 2,300 years old. The northernmost section of Sian Ka’an contains what is thought to be an ancient trade route through lagoons and mangrove channels between the cities of Tulum and Muyil. Parts of what is now the Reserve were once areas of chicle production and trade through the middle of the twentieth century, and the fishing industry is still one of the most important economic activities of the Reserve’s population. Common species include spiny lobster (Palinurus espinosa) tarpon, grouper, permit, nurse shark, hammerhead, black tipped shark, and snapper.
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