The Gamboa Resort is in the jungles of Panama, but maintains a very high level of comfort. This is a view from the resort. It is not a beach resort, but a jungle resort, and waaaay better than a beach resort if you are like me. Lots of wildlife to see.
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Entrance to Tunel Gueritas. It's a short stream cave through a hill in the Tonosi area of Panama.
 A pile of Phylostomus hastatus (spear-nosed bats) from Panama. I haven't posted a bat pic for some time, so here is one to make up for it. Location is a cave about an hour east of Panama City. 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.  Frank Abatto in the White Way in Ol' Bank Underworld. 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.  A surface tarantula that was either very lost or washed into the White Way sump (known as Lake Prudence) during a heavy rain. Ten years ago, we lived in Panama. Our son was just a baby as we took him around on our travels. One day we were out in a Kuna Indian village near Lago Bayano, and this lovely woman asked if she could hold him. I took a quick pic, not a posed shot. It is one of my favorite pictures from our time in Panama. 
My kid with a Kuna Indian women in Panama
 Most of the caves in Panama are wet, with streams and such. But this cave had a pretty amazing shower coming in from above.
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