My Everyday Photos

We were there at the beginning of the dry season. However, someone must have mis-read the calendar. We had some rain most days and quite a bit of rain on one day. And with the never-ending summer weather, plant life thrives. Any building or car that had been left alone for a while appeared to have stuff growing on, around and through it. I was impressed by the shear numbers of flowers that we saw – most of which I could not identify. There was lots of bougainvillea, many varieties of hibiscus, jasmine, morning glory, bromeliads and much more. Also much to my surprise, there were quite a few cacti species! And no, I don’t know what they are. If you know the names of any of these plants, do let me know. We were surprised by the honey bees! They were pollinating many flowers. We never saw any evidence of bee hives so maybe they were introduced and have gone feral along with the horses, dogs, cats, mongoose, etc.

Kiwano – horned melon

They look like saguaros

Another cactus

mangrove roots

hibiscus fruit

palm tree lit up at night

300 year old Cieba tree

From a distance it looks like a good climbing tree. Up close it looks armed and dangerous.

Wing-like roots

bougainvillea

This looked like a pea flower

Bougainvillea

jasmine

bougainvillea

Love this palm

hibiscus

Another kind of hibiscus

Anyone know what this is?

Unused trails and roads are swiftly overrun with foliage

morning glory

two dimensional palm

big bromliad

This looks like an orange chantrelle. We saw dried chantrelles for sale in a market.

Making our way to beach

Sometimes we had to wade

mangroves

Boardwalk through a mangrove forest to a brackish lagoon.