I´m not sure in what order these pictures will post, but I will briefly (I hear all those sighs of relief after your having read about the Copan Ruinas!) cover our week in Honduras beginning with the time starting after our visit to the ruins. The next day we splurged on a major thrill, called a canopy tour. This is another name for zip lines, steel cables strung between trees from which you hang from a pulley as you fly down the mountain side in 15 trips to get to the bottom. You would clip in, often standing on a platform in a tree and then go... sailing out over the tree tops! Then the mountainside below you would break into a ravine and y
ou´d suddenly be as much as 300 feet above the tree tops. We could not capture the depth or thrill of this ride, so I have a picture here as a token image. One of the runs was said to be over half mile in length. I would guess that is accurate. The engineer in me had me wondering about their anchoring system however. Each end of the cable was wound around approximately a 15" diameter tree. The tree had no other support. With the amount of tension in the 7-16" cable, I am very surprised the trees did not uproot. Also glad they did not!
ou´d suddenly be as much as 300 feet above the tree tops. We could not capture the depth or thrill of this ride, so I have a picture here as a token image. One of the runs was said to be over half mile in length. I would guess that is accurate. The engineer in me had me wondering about their anchoring system however. Each end of the cable was wound around approximately a 15" diameter tree. The tree had no other support. With the amount of tension in the 7-16" cable, I am very surprised the trees did not uproot. Also glad they did not!We took a bus to Tela, on the Carribean coast where we spent five days in the sun and water. I included a few sample shots, us eating breakfast in view of the Carribean, us eating lunch along the beach, us eating dinner at our favorite rest., The Northern Lights (starting to get the the
me?) Jessica and Kim having a cold one. The last photo may not be obvious to be included with the dining pictures, but read on. This one is of a termite nest in the Ecological Reserve Area. Our guide was pointing out many things about survival in the jungle and said termites were a tastee treat, much the same flavor as carrots. He demonstrated how to capture some termites and eat them, and then offered the group to partake. I think he was a bit surprised when most of the D´s tried out termites (We had not had lunch yet along the beach.) 
me?) Jessica and Kim having a cold one. The last photo may not be obvious to be included with the dining pictures, but read on. This one is of a termite nest in the Ecological Reserve Area. Our guide was pointing out many things about survival in the jungle and said termites were a tastee treat, much the same flavor as carrots. He demonstrated how to capture some termites and eat them, and then offered the group to partake. I think he was a bit surprised when most of the D´s tried out termites (We had not had lunch yet along the beach.) 
P.S. it would take alot of termites to make even a small helping at a meal.....
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