Adventures with Bumbling Cameraman
Hello, Bon jour, hola, konichiwa, So you thought that I had slipped off the face of the Earth? Well, I thought so when I got to Paquera, Costa Rica! Tulum seems like a metropolis of grandeur proportions compared to Paquera. But don’t get me wrong - it had its little pleasures and niceties. For example, the way all the townpeople had no street sense at all, and would walk in the middle of the road, oblivious of the hurtling Mitsubishi Montero filled with camera gear, two eminent cameramen and their field assistant (yep that´s me!). If it wasn’t humans, then it was chickens, pigs, little kids (oh yes, I guess they are human!), hawks with iguanas in their talons, baby owls.... you get the picture. While having a beer after a hard day in the field, you would get chatted up by the local whores, that are in no way oil paintings. Lovely personalities though! Would go and buy mussels (for the monkeys) from an eclectic restaurant in the mangroves from a woman that had a bigger and better mous...