Brenda picking wild cherries to eat.

A big waterfall on the road into El Yunque, the rainforest on the east end of Puerto Rico.

A huge fern in the rain forest. These things are like trees and they are all over the place.

One of the walking paths (very steep) through El Yunque.

A beautiful tropical flower that is very common in the rain forest. These things are like some kind of parasite.. there are clumps of these things growing on almost every tree in the forest.

A huge fern tree that is typical in the rain forest.

Brenda's retarded snail.

Brenda on the top of the tower in El Yunque.

Me sitting next to the stream that runs by the lower walking path in El Yunque.

This is the Puerto Rican idea of commercial and political advertisement. These things are EXTREMELY loud. If you look closely you can see that there is a generator in the back to support the trillion watts of stereo speakers he has.

The panels that make up the dish.

Suspenion Cables.

Shoes for walking on the dish to clear debris.

One of the old cannons from El Morro.

One of the sniper holes in the front wall of El Morro.

Sprite Advertisement. These things were all over the place, like graffiti. This one was on an abandoned house, some were on roadway dividers, etc.. I would think this would get them a fat lawsuit in the United States.

The almond ready to eat.

We are cracking open the almonds we have gathered with a big rock and getting ready to eat them.

Almonds that you can find just laying on the ground all over Puerto Rico.

Brenda gathering almonds from the almond tree on Los Tubos.

Chupacabra (sheep sucker). A common legend in latin culture of a vampire-like animal that has been known to kill farm animals.

Mar Chiqita (Little Sea) Panorama. This place is great. It's located on the north shore of Puerto Rico. It's just exactly what it says, a little sea guarded from the Atlantic by a huge outcropping of rocks.

A panorama of the Observatory in Arecibo. This is the largest radio telescope in the world. You may have seen it in the X-Files movie, Contact or one of the James Bond movies.

An image of a native borikua carved into the mountain.

The pathway leading up to the tower near the top of the mountain in El Yunque.

A big meteorite inside the museum at the Arecibo Observatory.

A nice view from the back of the fort (El Morro) on the northeastern corner of Puerto Rico.

A huge almond tree (almendras) on Los Tubos beach (the tubes, for the nice tube-like waves).

Uvas de Playa. Grapes that are found growing wild all over the beaches.

Rabilargo, a very cool bird with a long tail we saw on the beach (Los Tubos).

A stand of huge bambua (bamboo) along the side of the road near Manati.

Here I am picking an aguacate (avacado) from a tree growing right next to the house that we were staying in.

The big waterfall at the end of the lower walking path in El Yunque.