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var AlbumTitle = "El Naranjo, El Maguey, y Agua Zarca - Spring Break - 2004";
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var IntroSlide = new Slide("Intro.jpg", 0, "11/3/2002", "");
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SlideArray[0]  = new Slide("", 2, "", "El Naranjo, El Maguey, and Agua Zarca - Spring Break - 2004");
SlideArray[1]  = new Slide("", 4, "", "El Naranjo");
SlideArray[2]  = new Slide("IMG_4864.JPG", 0, "3/7/2004", "El Naranjo is located in a valley between two mountain ranges.");
SlideArray[3]  = new Slide("IMG_4866.JPG", 0, "3/7/2004", "There was a lot of haze in the air due to the processing of sugarcane in El Naranjo.");
SlideArray[4]  = new Slide("IMG_4867.JPG", 0, "3/7/2004", "");
SlideArray[5]  = new Slide("", 4, "", "El Salto");
SlideArray[6]  = new Slide("IMG_4868.JPG", 0, "3/7/2004", "This waterfall near El Salto was diverted to produce hydroelectric power.");
SlideArray[7]  = new Slide("IMG_4869.JPG", 0, "3/7/2004", "");
SlideArray[8]  = new Slide("IMG_4870.JPG", 0, "3/7/2004", "");
SlideArray[9]  = new Slide("IMG_4871.JPG", 0, "3/7/2004", "The water was beautiful in the pools below.  We attributed this to the limestone bedrock dissolved in the water.");
SlideArray[10] = new Slide("IMG_4872.JPG", 0, "3/7/2004", "");
SlideArray[11] = new Slide("IMG_4873.JPG", 0, "3/7/2004", "It reminded us of scenes from Hawaii where you could jump from rocky perches into the water below.");
SlideArray[12] = new Slide("", 4, "", "Road to El Maguey");
SlideArray[13] = new Slide("IMG_4875.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "Walking the road to El Maguey looking for birds.");
SlideArray[14] = new Slide("IMG_4877.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "Native orange trees line the road to El Maguey.");
SlideArray[15] = new Slide("IMG_4878.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "");
SlideArray[16] = new Slide("IMG_4879.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "What do you see?");
SlideArray[17] = new Slide("IMG_4880.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "We think our ants are bad.");
SlideArray[18] = new Slide("IMG_4881.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "Note the clouds that line the hills to our right as we hiked into El Maguey.  It rained on us lightly from time to time as we walked.");
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SlideArray[21] = new Slide("IMG_4884.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "");
SlideArray[22] = new Slide("IMG_4885.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "");
SlideArray[23] = new Slide("IMG_4886.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "This is the first in a series of pictures in which I shot successive pictures through a range of 360° in all directions.");
SlideArray[24] = new Slide("IMG_4887.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "The farmers in this area plow their fields by hand or with horses and mules.");
SlideArray[25] = new Slide("IMG_4888.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "");
SlideArray[26] = new Slide("IMG_4889.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "");
SlideArray[27] = new Slide("IMG_4890.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "");
SlideArray[28] = new Slide("IMG_4891.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "");
SlideArray[29] = new Slide("IMG_4892.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "");
SlideArray[30] = new Slide("IMG_4893.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "");
SlideArray[31] = new Slide("IMG_4894.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "");
SlideArray[32] = new Slide("IMG_4895.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "The farmer in this field is tending his crops by hand.  Another in a nearby field was plowing with a mule.");
SlideArray[33] = new Slide("IMG_4896.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "El Maguey.");
SlideArray[34] = new Slide("IMG_4898.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "On the way back to our car.");
SlideArray[35] = new Slide("", 4, "", "Road to Agua Zarca");
SlideArray[36] = new Slide("IMG_4901.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "Leaf cutter ants hard at work.  I stayed at the car and took the shots while Laura and Jay hiked a short way looking for specialty birds.");
SlideArray[37] = new Slide("IMG_4902.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "");
SlideArray[38] = new Slide("IMG_4903.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "");
SlideArray[39] = new Slide("", 4, "", "Near Agua Zarca");
SlideArray[40] = new Slide("IMG_4910.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "Great-horned owl near Agua Zarca.");
SlideArray[41] = new Slide("IMG_4914.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "We were in an area that the land owners had allowed us to enter.  They were very nice people and the man spoke a little English.");
SlideArray[42] = new Slide("IMG_4916.JPG", 0, "3/8/2004", "This dude was cool but quite distrustful.");
SlideArray[43] = new Slide("IMG_4917.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "");
SlideArray[44] = new Slide("IMG_4921.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "There was a beautiful stream and waterfall along the side of the road.");
SlideArray[45] = new Slide("IMG_4920.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "");
SlideArray[46] = new Slide("IMG_4925.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "Huge tree beside road consisting of three trunks which had joined far above the ground into one massive tree.  (See next slide for closeup.)");
SlideArray[47] = new Slide("IMG_4923.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "");
SlideArray[48] = new Slide("IMG_4926.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "Ferns growing out of tree branches everywhere.");
SlideArray[49] = new Slide("IMG_4928.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "");
SlideArray[50] = new Slide("IMG_4930.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "");
SlideArray[51] = new Slide("IMG_4931.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "");
SlideArray[52] = new Slide("IMG_4934.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "");
SlideArray[53] = new Slide("IMG_4937.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "Ferruginous Pygmy-owl.");
SlideArray[54] = new Slide("IMG_4940.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "");
SlideArray[55] = new Slide("IMG_4941.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "Ferruginous Pygmy-owl after it had flown to denser cover.");
SlideArray[56] = new Slide("IMG_4943.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "Motmot in dense underbrush so dark that all color was lost when I lightened the picture so that it could be seen.");
SlideArray[57] = new Slide("IMG_4947.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "");
SlideArray[58] = new Slide("", 4, "", "West of Agua Zarca");
SlideArray[59] = new Slide("IMG_4948.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "It got downright cool when we hit the Western slope of the mountains under cloud cover.");
SlideArray[60] = new Slide("IMG_4949.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "Note that we are completely out of the Eastern habitat and that desert conditions prevail.  We had only traveled a short distance.");
SlideArray[61] = new Slide("IMG_4950.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "Mexican Coral or Mexican Shower trees (depending upon your source).");
SlideArray[62] = new Slide("IMG_4951.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "These trees were simply gorgeous.");
SlideArray[63] = new Slide("IMG_4954.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "");
SlideArray[64] = new Slide("IMG_4957.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "");
SlideArray[65] = new Slide("IMG_4956.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "As you get closer and closer they become ever more interesting.");
SlideArray[66] = new Slide("IMG_4963.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "");
SlideArray[67] = new Slide("IMG_4958.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "");
SlideArray[68] = new Slide("IMG_4967.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "These trees seemed to glow with the proper background.");
SlideArray[69] = new Slide("IMG_4968.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "In other settings they were colorful points of neon light.");
SlideArray[70] = new Slide("", 4, "", "Back in El Naranjo");
SlideArray[71] = new Slide("IMG_4972.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "Hotel de Valle en El Naranjo.");
SlideArray[72] = new Slide("IMG_4970.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "We wondered if the name on the truck was pronounced 'food.'");
SlideArray[73] = new Slide("IMG_4974.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "");
SlideArray[74] = new Slide("IMG_4969.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "Entrance to the exclusive parking lot at the Hotel de Valle.");
SlideArray[75] = new Slide("IMG_4973.JPG", 0, "3/9/2004", "Our room was on the side near the back.  Large trucks and buses ran along the street throughout the night.");
SlideArray[76] = new Slide("IMG_4975.JPG", 0, "3/10/2004", "Jay in our room in El Naranjo.");
SlideArray[77] = new Slide("IMG_4978.JPG", 0, "3/10/2004", "");
SlideArray[78] = new Slide("IMG_4979.JPG", 0, "3/10/2004", "Really nice bathroom for Mexico.");
SlideArray[79] = new Slide("IMG_4980.JPG", 0, "3/10/2004", "");
SlideArray[80] = new Slide("IMG_4981.JPG", 0, "3/10/2004", "");
SlideArray[81] = new Slide("IMG_4985.JPG", 0, "3/10/2004", "We watched Mexican soap operas at night.  Of course, we had to supply our own storylines.");

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