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canopy Towers Soberania National Park Panama



waiting in front of the Crown Plaza Tocumen Airport Hotel for the van to Canopy Towers Canopy Towers is a bird/wildlife eco tour hostel in what was once part of a US military base in the Panama Canal Zone the source video for womanDoingTaiChi was recorded at Owls Head Park in Brooklyn. the resulting animation was played back on a BENJIE K8 16GB BT MP3 MP4 Player.

Panama City from the top of Canopy Towers through the fog and mist and rain behind the jungle early one morning


jorge: see the green laser light below the fork in the tree branch?
jorge: above that and to the left is a red-legged honeycreeper
anon: yes, got it. wonderful.
anon: (aside) I can't even find the green light.
anon: oh there it is.
jorge: it flew away. look down and to the left. let me get it in the scope.
anon: (looking through the scope on tripod) yes. yes. i see it now. fantastic. where did it go.
anon: i did see something. i'm not sure what it was. a blue flash. little tiny fucking birds.
jorge: wait look on the next tree. there's a blue dacnis.
anon: i see two black bellied whistling ducks sitting in a tree.
anon = anonymous birdwatcher




and after several days of two field trips a day bird watching expeditions one can chill out at the Gamboa Rainforest Resort's swimming pool which at one time was also part of an American military base within the Panama Canal Zone.



beneath the Gamboa Rainforest Resort on a grassy tract next to the Chagres River an installation of unknown origin of unknown use sits assemblages of boards and sheets and barrels perhaps a paintball course or a field for some game of Black Ops Laser tag in a future







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