The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

Guess what!

That wasn’t enough spider monkey pictures.

You should have known that when you saw the baby.

But there aren’t any more baby pictures

The one with the baby stayed high up where it was hard to get good pictures.

This one was down much closer

So the pictures are a bit better.

He was also busy looking for food

Which involved a lot of hanging

And twisting

Which was pretty entertaining.

Their tails are amazingly strong.

I wish I had a tail to hang from.

Warning: We only saw one spider in Tikal so there is no separate creepy crawly post, he’s at the bottom. But he’s small and pretty.

This is an ocellated turkey.

It is a weird looking bird

It has peacock like feathers

And bumps all over its face.

And scary feet

Can you see the lizard?

This is a bird

This is a pigeon, but he is kind of pretty for a pigeon.

This is a howler monkey

There were lots of young ones

Their dangly bits don’t match the rest of their skin and stand out.

It looks even funnier when they’re old and wrinkled.

(This is the 2nd last photo, the pretty spider is next)

This is a pretty spider

There were spider monkeys hanging around at Tikal.

They hang by their tails

They also have long fingers

And long arms

This one is carrying a baby on his back

It was difficult to figure out which limbs belong to which monkey

The baby was very cute

But she was hard to see.

Because she was mostly behind her dad.

So you could only see her arms.

And sometimes her little legs

On this one you can see part of her little tail.

But most of the time it was just her little arms.

The tall temples at Tikal poke out of the jungle

So when you climb them you can see all the other temples poking out of the jungle

And take selfies with them

It’s a long climb to the top.

But from the ground it’s hard to see the temples through the trees.

Of course, from the top you can only see the tops of the temples.

From the middle you can only see the tops of the temples

Even from up close the bottoms are often covered in plants

But the bits sticking out are pretty impressive

Once you make it up to where you can see them

The temples look pretty cool

Even when they’re covered in jungle

Matt was hot and tired

Kerri told him to take a picture of her at the top of the temple but he refused to get up from his seat in the shade so you can barely see her.

Eventually he got up and did it properly.