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This is the widened road leading to the property. When we purchased it, it was just a horse track. Since this picture was taken it has been graveled.	This is the casita as it looked after clearing some space around it but before painting.	Here is the casita after painting and more clearing.	Front view.	Side view
From the hillside	The trees you see are guava, which bear a sweet fruit favored by monkeys and parrots. The finca has thousands of them.	another view	Side view	Side view
House guest -- there are dozens.	Resting house guest (fruit bat).	Gecko house guest.	This 20 acres borders our property. It was beautiful jungle when we bought the farm, but was slashed and burned shortly after (for cattle). This is the very reason the preserve is so necessary. Where are the animals to go?	Ouch!
This hurts.	The green you see just beyond the burn is the edge of our preserve.	Aaahhh. A view of the valley.	Me standing in newly re-cleared jungle land. The posts behind me mark the edge of an old fruit farm.	Lulu and I cleared five acres so the fruit trees would bear more heavily for the monkeys.
Me loading up the Montero with dozens of sprouting coconut palms to plant throughout the jungle.	A load of coconuts.	Me happily planting.	The terrain can be steep and sometimes walking a creekbed is the easiest way to go. But watch out for the snakes!	A soft path of leaves in the primary forest.
A view of the twenty-five acres of primary forest.	Another view of the primary.	Another view of the primary.	Me in front of a tremendous ceiba tree, 30 foot diameter at the base, nearly ten feet diameter all the way up.	My son, Cabel.
Cabel helping me dig out the spring.	Cabel beneath a 30 foot heliconia, a rare variety.	Cabel in front of a giant root buttress.	I cleared this area so that we could get a view from the little green house.	Me chopping a trail.
One of six large mango trees on the property.	Another mango tree.Needless to say, the monkeys love 'em.	Speaking of monkeys, these are mono titi.	A mono titi with a new baby.	Several mono titis. This red-backed squirrel monkey is found only in this region.
A six or seven foot iguana up a tree.	Scarlet macaw looking down at me.	Scarlet macaw.	Howler monkey looking down at me.	Baby howler.
Howler monkeys.	Here's the little house again.	Front yard of the little house.	Small red squirrel eating a hole in a coconut.

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