I watched a talk on the extinction of the human race. They project by 2050 more than ¼ of all species to be extinct.

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I learned how to dive below the surface with a dry snorkel at Coiba Island. I was a bit nervous about how to time it but I just went for it. The difference a good snorkel and mask make while snorkeling is night and day. I didn’t have any water leakage in my snorkel or my mask. I could blow out the salt water upon resurfacing. I saw a few puffers, a group of large fish that let me swim along with them and looked at the red algae at the bottom of the ocean floor. What a miraculous world that exists. I felt as if I was in a fairy tale. The current was fairly strong, and there are known to be brackish crocodiles by the rocks, so I motored around the shoreline. I’ve spent a fair amount of time this week wondering about fear. What is fear? And why has it been instilled (unrealistically)into us? What is there to be afraid of?

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Animals I’ve spotted in Costa Rica:

Broad wing hawk

Spider and howler monkey

Sloth

Capuchin monkey

Black-throated Trogan

Capuchin Monkey

Scarlet Macaw

Basilisk Lizard

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I crave citrus fruits in Central America. Trying to find the balance between awake & asleep, alone time & crew time. Saw a bryde’s whale today. The weather is scalding hot.

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The Spanish spoke in Panama consists of a sound like Italian.

Infliction is up down up down like when saying the word cappuccino…

ca (up)ppu (down) cci (up) no (down)

It’s faster, more mumbled.