Osa: Sunrise, Puppies, Skinks of a Certain Size

Sunrise looking over the Osa bay. This is about six o'clock or so. We had quick sunsets (since the sun went down in the jungle behind us) but really great sunrises every single day. We were awake for all of them, since the howler monkeys crowed an hour before sun-up without fail.

The water was perfectly warm, and the beach about half and half between blonde sand and pebbles.

More colors as the sun rises over the mainland.

We're looking across the bay, eastward. The water is a pretty placid piece of the Pacific.

Pelicans would divebomb for fish every morning at dawn.


Kate stands in the surf.
More sunrise.

A very cute stray dog. The stray dog density was perhaps 0.25 x D, where D is the mathematical constant representing the maximum stray dog density as achieved in Darjeeling. 0.25 x D is a lot of dogs.

There were many large iguanas and medium-sized skinks.

Somewhere in Chelsea, mid-autumn (or "Why is life so cruel to the little ones?")

Puppy under glass.

He looks like an adorable, forlorn, furry slug.

Upright, though still mournful.

World's cutest French bulldog puppy outside Gray's Papaya on Sixth and Carmine. He has just emigrated to New York from Hungary.

Jonah, the Boston Terrier, is out of place in Philadelphia. I think he is probably the only Boston Terrier in the universe who knows the word "Schenectady."

Jonah, who's two and a half, is quite excitable. He does a lot of jumping from Ottoman to chair to love seat, making snorting noises all the while. It's as if he's a demonically possessed, evil little piglet.

Alissa agrees with me that he would surely make a succulent roast. So plump.

Two very cute Bassets, the little one is a year old, and the bigger one is two. This is on Macdougal, I believe.

Lizzie makes nice with Sandy, the somewhat pudgy and extremely affectionate golden Lab who shared our host house with us. There was also the superannuated Bramble (a dark-haired mix who was seventeen years old and had bad arthritis in both feet). We spent a fair bit of time in the backyard sunning during the latter part of our time, as the weather was fair.