Category Archives: panama

October Big Day: Birding the Eclipse

Posted on October 18, 2023 by Stacey M. Hollis

A few days before last Saturday, I contacted bird guide friend Lukas asking if he’d bird the October Big Day with me around Isla Colón where we live. I knew my beloved Tranquilo Bay Eco-Adventure Lodge and bird guide legends … Continue reading →

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Caribbean Coral Restoration of Bocas del Toro

Posted on January 4, 2021 by Stacey M. Hollis

Guess who helped cleaned coral trees hung with fragments growing toward becoming vibrant, healthy, future reef with Caribbean Coral Restoration to finish off this doozie of a year? I was invited to help for the second time to clean PVC … Continue reading →

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Buenos Días, Grandy!

Posted on July 15, 2020 by Stacey M. Hollis

This is the second installment in what I’m calling my “Good Morning, Grandy!” series. Join me on jaunt down to Tranquilo Bay’s dock and we’ll listen to the tropical sounds of the morning together..  

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Corona Times of 2020

Posted on June 10, 2020 by Stacey M. Hollis

I’m going to start by sending out a huge sloth hug to you all. Love can travel through wifi waves and here it comes your way.. Feel free to send one back, because who knows what the future holds, we’re … Continue reading →

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Good Morning, Grandy!

Posted on April 3, 2020 by Stacey M. Hollis

Just sent this to my grandmother, Dorothy Hollis, who is in lockdown in her 98th year of life.   As a member of the Women’s Army Corps, she travelled from Australia to Japan behind the McArthur party during WWII. At … Continue reading →

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Tranquilo Bay Caribbean Adventures

Posted on February 1, 2020 by Stacey M. Hollis

Been busy around Tranquilo Bay this winter and had a chance to get up to surprise Grandy for her 98th birthday! Not much time to post but here’s something of mine that we recently put up on Tranquilo Bay’s Instagram…enjoy! … Continue reading →

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Exploring Bocas..at depth!

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Stacey M. Hollis

So while we‘ve been getting busy here at Tranquilo Bay as we bound into the high season, I was pleased to have a chance before things got too involved to don a mask, snorkel, BCD and tank so that I might … Continue reading →

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Parents’ Panamanian Invasion!

Posted on August 9, 2019 by Stacey M. Hollis

From Panama City to the mountains of Boquete to Bocas del Toro and Tranquilo Bay! Baves, kayaking, snorkeling, hiking and plenty of tropical wildlife!

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Watching them go.

Posted on May 2, 2019 by Stacey M. Hollis

We’ve been watching them go and, now at the tail-end of migration, our neotropical migrating birds are nearly all gone. It’s been a delight to work outside and be able to intentionally search out the mass migration of birds north … Continue reading →

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Moving on!

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Stacey M. Hollis

Yep, it’s true. The migratory birds are on the move, leaving the tropics in droves now. Our prothonotary warblers left immediately, without giving me a chance to say goodbye, the chuckling call of the summer tanagers have faded away, but … Continue reading →

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