Lunch in Viejo San Juan
Dave & Tammy standing in front of El Morro Castle
Cannon's at El Morro Castle
Outside El Morro
The colorful streets of Viejo San Juan
The colorful streets of Viejo San Juan
Dave & Alicia Lusk and Tammy & Dave at the start of our adventure with Aventuras Tierra Adentro
Looking into a gorge in the rain forest
Getting ready for our adventure
Dave starting a 165' rappel
Tammy starting her 165' rappel
Tammy about half way down.
Tammy and Alicia after completing their rappel
David Lusk starting his rappel
The 4 amigos
Looking out from the cave behind the waterfall
Dave diving to a cave on the back side of the waterfall
Dave & Alicia traversing a tricky area
Resting after a ziplining
Tammy starting another zipline
Tammy 1/2 way down a zipline
David diving off a cliff
David ziplining over the waterfall. The cliff on the right is the same cliff he is diving off in the preceding image.
David & Alicia starting their climb back out of the jungle
David climbing up on a rock, so he can slide down the waterfall.
The entire group after climbing/swimming thru the waterfall. Notice David only has one shoe, because the waterfall ripped the other one off his foot.
David starting a zip line
David Ziplining
Tammy Ziplining
A Coqui Frog (The "animal of Puerto Rico")
Feeding the chickens at lunch on Palomino Island
The El Conquistador
resort. We stayed in the building in the upper left of the
photo.
The only photo's we took underwater before our battery went dead. We never got a picture of Tammy swimming with the turtle
Tammy and Dave at the El Conquistador's private island, Palomino Island.
Dave with a little Iquana he caught on the island
Horseback Riding on Palomino Island
The dark blue trench to the left and between Little Palomito Island and Palomino Island offered great snorkeling for us.
David in San Juan with members of
Left to right, Michelle Kantrow President, Juan Luiz Martinez member, David, & Joaquim Garcia Vice President.
David being interviewed live by Susan Soltero of Univision TV of Puerto Rico regarding the Transit.
All of the staff from
The transit of Venus at 3rd contact taken at 7:09am by David and Juan with Juan Luiz Martinez's Orion Starmax 102 f12.7, 1300mm Maksutov and David's To U Cam and computer. 30 second exposure, 10 frames a second stacked in Registax, then processed in Adobe. Notice the black drop effect at the limb!
The view from our patio overlooking the golf course
One of the inhabitants of the golf course
Our last breakfast at the El Conquistador.
A view back at our room.
Tammy and David adentro la cueva en Camuy.
A very friendly iguana that would eat out of your hands at breakfast.
Tammy and David at Arecibo Observatory.