Sierra Gorda Biosphere

This past week I again had the opportunity to visit the Sierra Gorda Biosphere in the north of Querétaro. I am helping some of the volunteers there on a project with remote wildlife cameras--basically sensors attached to a digital camera that takes pictures of critters in the wild. The hope is that they can get some good shots of the jaguars, etc., that populate the park. This is a rooftop shot of the main church where the volunteers life.



Also, we stumbled upon a barrio festival one night! There was a big band, two stages, and lots of people dancing huapango, the music of the region.



One day we also went swimming in a local river. I caught this ironically funny shot, though it is slightly unfair. These three kids were playing with an air mattress in the river, and of course the two girls are pushing it upstream while the guy is relaxing on top. I say unfair, because he jumped off about a minute later to help pull...but he still got a free ride for a while!