DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 2010

our sleeping quarters at Tubagua Plantation Eco Village

Open-air Reading Room!

Bathrooms and Washbasins

Shower

View from the shower

Dining room

Dining room with view

View of Isabel del Torres Mountain from dining room

Kitchen

Dinner??

Sunset from dining room

night falls in the dining room

Tubagua means “precious ocean” in Taino

yum! bananas are a natural snack food!

working on scarf for Yanira

Jackie and Taina

Jackie and her daughter Alaña

Clifford: not big, not red.

Private doggie drinking pool....

Yellow at rest.

Yes, she eats lizards. At night. Now she sleeps.

First you wait for the water to boil

Then you make the tea.

Yum. Take some time waiting for it to be ready.

Then savor it with agreeable company.

Happy!

Us with Richard and Tim

with Robert and Danny

Tim and Richard

Jackie and Luisa

Other everpresent companions

Avocados just outside the dining room

Yummy!

Fruit for sale on side of road

and on the tree ready to pick

.....after the guy climbed the coconut palm

Lots of lovely flowers

Mauras at Laguna Gri-Gri, Rio San Juan

Who knew? Vultures like company!

joined by snowy egrets

On a hike with Juan to Los Charcos de Los Militares

Cool at last!

Yup, it’s that deep!

playing with mimosa

Santiago

Puerto Plata and the “guide” who attached himself to us

Central Square, Puerto Plata

Taino Museum

Miriam and her birthdate street sign in Puerto Plata

the Teleferico up to Isabel del Torres mountain

Puerto Plata

Isabel del Torres

Houseplants, where they don’t need to be in a house.

the primary school serving Tubagua students

practicing with wiffle balls, which won’t roll downhill!

the baseball field’s manager and his team with equipment donated by McNab minor baseball

equipment for the baseball team

practicing correct form with wiffle balls

Marta the primary teacher and her new school bag

painting the back wall at Camu school

Joseph and the principal at Camu school

the Dream Project school

part of Cabarete the Dream Project serves

Yanira’s family

Yanira and her twin sister Melliza the hairdresser

bridge to get to the Martinez family’s pigs

Yanira and Miriam

Um...it’s wet?

You’re doing WHAT?

the beach at Cabarete

Cabarete

View from the cabin at Playa Magante

beach at Coco Cabanas: Playa Magante

beach bum

Aladino’s here: but where is Cocaina? Marijuana? Honest, the names of these dogs!

Laguna Gri-Gri, a bird sanctuary in Rio San Juan

Hermit crabs by lagoon heading for their holes

Aerial roots from trees in lagoon

Mangrove swamp

If one more guy tells me I have a beautiful face....