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 Ala単a
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....