Wiithin the rain forest canopy

This was Canopy Day! I'd waited a long time for it, though I feared I'd be unable to go because of heat stroke. Fortunately Mary Anne diagnosed it correctly and treated me with Reiki and electrolytes. That plus an air-conditioned room restored me! Thank you Mary Anne! Yay!

I tthink there won't be much text with these photographs, first because they're self-explanatory, and second, because my fingers are so sticky that typing is inaccurate. Here goes--

We were on the river before the sun was fully up!

The trail was muddy from the rain last night, some places VERY  muddy.

We walked from platform to platform on these suspension bridges.

leaf cutter ants carrying their booty to the nest

looking down from a platform

Aiiiiieeee! there I am, right in the middle of it! 

Here is the forest floor.

Yesterday we saw this magnificen tceiba tree for whom the lodge is named. Here are three photos stacked up:

not a very successful re-creation, but it is gigantic!

That's moi, and I bid you adieu for now!