Monkey Crossing
One of the cool things about moving to Panama was always going to be the wildlife. Coming here, we expected to see wild parrots, dolphins (hopefully, someday, even a pink one!), whales, sloths, lemurs, iguanas, and other cool, tropical animals and birds…
This morning (moving day - we say goodbye to Playa Venao), I ran up to the mini-super to buy big garbage bags for covering all of our luggage. (It’s the rainy season in Panama and since we have #TooMuchStuff and had to rent a pickup truck for our trip to Playa Venao, most of our belongings will be exposed to potentially torrential downpours.)
On my way back, a Panamanian White-faced Capuchin monkey ran in front of the truck. The cover photo for this post is not a photo I took - it all happened so quickly there was no way I could have gotten my camera out in time. It crossed far enough up the road (and I wasn’t going that fast) that it was never in any danger of me hitting it —but I was definitely close enough to see that it looked exactly like the monkey in this photo.
I doubt that I came close enough to even scare it a little but I hope that in the future, it will use one of the monkey bridges that they put between trees across the roads here.
