↓ A moth on the water pump timer
See his little pink feet? ↓

↓ An underwing view. ↓

↓ Another bug in the bathhouse – he has pretty shiny eyes! ↓

↓ Our room; bug-proofed with screens. (Hey, its a jungle out there!) ↓

↓ Our room from the outside -- with the Isenglas windows [plastic curtains] rolled all the way up. ↓

↓ The dance floor at night ↓

↓ This mural on the wall of the outdoor bar is an artists rendition of Becan, where we will go tomorrow morning. ↓

Moon Handbook says:
"-- by the time the Spanish reached the Yucatan in the early 1500's, the majority of sites had been abandoned for at least 300 years, and in some cases double or triple that."

An engraving from the 1800's by F. Catherwood was on a nearby wall.
Fredrick Catherwood and J.L. Stephens explored the Yucatan 1839--41, and wrote some books about their adventures which the Moon Handbook says are
"...now condensed into a very readable volume, Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (Panorama Editorial, 1988)."

Before we went on our trip (which was also before we read the guidebook) the only other non-guide book we'd found listed for our pre-trip reading was a murder mystery that included highway bandits and corrupt Federales.
We decided not to read it.

↓ A close up of the mural above. ↓

↓ Food at Rio Bec Dreams ↓

↓ Our admission tickets to Calakmul ↓

Leaving Rio Bec Dreams Thursday morning

↓ More turkeys ↓

↓ The nani fruit from the kids in Limones. We tasted them (unripe) and threw them away. ↓

Becan, the ruin shown in last night's murals, is close by...

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