Wildlife Spotting

They are amazing, but getting a photo of a live one that's not on the end of a hook is probably really hard. I've been fishing in the surf off the beach here & had them swim within a few feet of me - very scary, you always think they are something else first! - but I never have my camera then.

These guys are different from the ones in the forest. The locals won't eat the ones in the forest (they have a rude name for them), but they eat the aquatic ones, which are usually quite a bit smaller than the land crabs. It is too bad about the tarpon but at least they are not wasted, people here are quite happy to get them. I was once snorkelling in Belize and a six foot tarpon swam by, I didn't know what it was (this was long before I lived here) because I only ever saw pictures with their mouths open! The sun was shining on it and with those huge silver scales it looked like a big disco ball.

They might if we had a street in Tortuguero! I've never heard of one of those migrations, my dad lives in Jamaica and they get them. Yes, I have tarpon pics but unfortunately only of ones that died during fishing - normally it is all catch and release but the occasional one dies (and lots of families get to make rondon, and the local artists use the scales for jewelry and crafts). I'm assuming a pic of a guy with a dead tarpon wouldn't be good here, but you can visit our website, www.toucanandtarpon.com. cheerio