The most popular tour out of Maz is the boat trip through estuary mangrove swamps.

Our family took the tour, most of us for the second or third time. Excellent — especially the birds.

The boat gets you very close to bird life.

Birds are increasingly tolerant of tourists here.

This is the flat-bottomed boat used on the tours. They sometimes get stuck at low tide.

Mangey beach dog.

New on the tour is a research project growing … sea horse.

We got about 90 minutes on a pristine, protected beach.

A lovely spot marred only by the recent introduction of quad vehicles. (Gladly no one rented one the day we were there.)

It is astonishing the number of over-weight people lounging the beaches of Mexico.

Great Blue Heron.

Feeding the pelican.

These giant birds have learned to come to the boat for a daily handout.

Long-time tour guide Polo even puts a fish on his head. (I remember Polo from my first jungle tour perhaps 20 years ago. Then he had a pet racoon on the boat.)

Yvonne feeding the birds. 🙂

The pelicans truely are impressive.

Getting the fish is the easy part. Keeping it from your dive-bombing competitors is the bigger challenge.

This hat went overboard. The skipper retrieved it.