So, I "think" this photo was taken in Cueva Rancho de la Guardia, but would have to find the original slide to be sure.
Many of my caving pictures are on slides, and scanning such pictures has always been troublesome. But the scans can be boiled down to reasonably good pics at small size. Here is a slide scan that seems reasonable enough after a bit of post processing. The big downside of scanned slides is that they don't include any information about the cave, caver, date, or similar. While this info was on the slide, it has to be put into the filename or other picture data after scanning, which is time-consuming.
So, I "think" this photo was taken in Cueva Rancho de la Guardia, but would have to find the original slide to be sure.
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Some years ago, I did quite a bit of caving in Panama. One of the caves discovered was Ol' Bank Underworld. We surveyed over a kilometer of passage, and to this day there are still good leads to extend the cave further. After surveying the main stream trunk, we went into an upper level passage that takes water during flood events not too far from the downstream sump. We thought it would be a bypass to the sump, but it went elsewhere. There were a lot of white formations and it was named the White Way, even though anyone going that way got pretty brown with all the mud on the floor in a couple places. The White Way ended at a long lake (only diving might find a continuation here), and we encountered this fine tarantula. Usually I can handle these things pretty easily, but this guy was cranky and hungry, and nearly got a bite in on me when I grabbed it.
The owl butterflies, or as they are sometimes called, the owl-eyed butterflies, are big tropical butterflies with a giant "eye spot" on their wings.
I wrote up a bit about them in my sorely laking "critter essays" section where some some more details can be found: http://www.tropicalbats.com/owl-butterfly.html This photo is from a butterfly on the Firestone Center for Restoration ecology, and a close-up of the "eye." We have now lived in Norway for just shy of three years, and it is time to move on. We have said goodbye to many good friends and will miss so many things about Oslo and Norway. Tomorrow we fly off to our next adventures in the United States, where we will live near Washington, DC for the next couple years.
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