Quito, Ecuador.

 The view from our hotel room at Nu House in Quito.

Across the street from our room is this second story outside bar that advertises tables on the beach, and there's the sand!

 A bit of Christmas in Quito.

Must have run out of names for banks...

Better version of this photo.

Andrew met us in Quito, he's Ian's birding friend who is now a tour guide for Tropical Birding.

4 of us at dinner at Siam in Quito, food not so good, company great!

 Ian spotted this Broad Breasted?? Hawk in the park.

Ahhh, the dolls....

And now I am going to be using my point and shoot Sony as I left my battery charger in MA for my Canon, can you believe it?? If I'm lucky, Ian's friend, Luke, will bring me a new charger when he arrives in Quito tomorrow, if not, well, the point and shoot will have to do...

Playa Escondida, Northern Coast of Ecuador

I'm trying something new here, I've downloaded a slide show to Youtube and hope you can access is by clicking here.

The slide show is of my trip to the northern coast of Ecuador with Gary, Karen and Bey for the weekend of January 8th, 2010. Playa Escondida is an eco lodge set in a bay near Esmeraldas on the Pacific Ocean, it's a little bit of paradise after going through some otherwise not very scenic towns of Ecuador.

The white cat is Pele, who lives at Judy's house where we all are staying when we're not on the road. Karen's parrot came with us, he enjoyed looking at the ocean as much as we did.

Let me know what you think of this format for seeing photos, I know the music needs a bit of tweaking, I'm going to work on that :-)