Schneider's cayman

While helping Eddy on the Jaguar program, checking for the photographic traps. I almost steppped on a Grey cayman, it's a smooth-fronted cayman wich can be quite aggressive if disturbed. It can be find in the forest and quite far from the water.
It's the second time that I work on the Jaguar conservation program, we have some photographic traps wich are essential to evaluate the number of Jaguars in the area. The traps are deep in the amazon forest, we stay 5 days and walk around 18 km per day to check the cameras and collect the films, we cover an area of 120 km2. So far the results are good, we are trying to evaluate the impact of human activities (pollution, hunting, gold digging, deforestation etc...) on some emblematic species in the amazon basin.

Eddy is also an entomologist, he just found a rare specy of longicorn, he's extremely excited, this specy only hatch in september and is mythic in French Guiana. I only had my phone camera with me unfortunately the longicorn doesn't show very well.

With Eddy I have learn quite a lot on beettles, we have put some insect traps on the forest and collected some longicorn larvaes for his researchs.

Olive ridley

Olive Ridley going back to sea after the nesting. It is exhausted and carrying the sand it put on it while digging.

I work for four month on the turtle conservation program, now the nesting season is almost over. Two to three nights a week I patrol the nesting areas explaining to the public what they could do or couldn't do and trying to inform them as much as I could about the sea turtles that are nesting in French Guiana. We have three species, the Leatherback, the Green turtle and the Olive ridley wich are nesting on the Beaches of Cayenne. The main problem being the disturbance of the turtles with lights and the predation of the nests by dogs or human as well as pollution (plastic bags).
You can find more informations in French with the conservation association I work for http://www.kwata.net

A week-end on the Maroni river

Red-handed Tamarin monkey

Saguinus Midas
I walked 2:30 in the jungle near Cayenne when I encountered around 8 monkeys. High up in the trees, jumping from tree to tree. They are quite small, around 25 cm for 500 grams.

Leatherback turtle

Laying about 100 eggs in a 60 cm hole. 8am on the Montjoly Beach, the sun was already high. Last night I saw my first Olive Ridley Turtle, much smaller than a Leather back and very interesting to observe, she digs holes differently and moves all her body energetically.

Jamaica - Kingstown - Port Antonio

20 days in Jamaica. Kingstown and Port Antonio.

The statue of Bob Marley in the eponymic museum. It is a place were one can enjoy the cult around Bob. It reminded it me a good old fashion soviet museum.

Irene in the tilting house of Port Royal. Destroyed by an earthquake, Port Royal was once the richest city in the world. Some parts of the city are now under 10 meters of water.
Jack Rackam was gibeted at the entrance of the port. Anne Bonny and Mary Read are among the famous pirates of the area who escaped hanging because they were pregnant.
Later Admiral Nelson ('Britania's God of War') spent a few months in Port Royal at the beginning of his career, he was bored because of the lack of action.
More recently Jack Sparrow Captain of the Black Pearl was almost hanged there... sic

Diving in Port Antonio

JP with a Remora attached to his tank.

Lee.

Lee and Marie.

Jane and a ray.

An other Scorpion fish, very well camoufled.

Tropical sole.

Remora attached to my fin.