Yeh, that's the stinger!  Leaves a welt like being hit with a baseball.  Nate kept two as pets...don't want to talk about it....

 Hike to glacier at the base of Nevado Huandoy, second highest mountain in the Cordillera Blanca Range at 6395m....but you start the hike at almost 4k meters.  Nate is hiking with Aisa, a girl from Lima that we met at the Lodge.

 Nate took this picture.  He says he fits more in on the diagonal.

 Bridging the gap in the trail.

 This is Charlie, the owner of Llanganuco Lodge and a great hiking guide!

 You can see Nevado Huandoy in the background.  This is the lake and pre-Inca ruins located just behind the lodge. You can also see the trail, just above Dan's head, that leads to the glacier.

 This picture does the mountain no justice.

 Here we are in Huanchaco after an 8 hour overnight bus.  Nate loves this game of tide tag.

 Reed boats still used by fishermen for thousands of years and also called caballitos de tortora (little horses). They only last a few months and then they need to make a new one.

 Nate fishing off the pier with line, two hooks and some sand crabs as bait.

 Don't worry....we threw this little guy back.  Most of the others on the pier kept them, however.

The tortoise and the hair.