with Sean 2007 Journal Parque Nacional Cuscu, Dept. Cortes, Honduras (cont.) Aug.30 ... the visitors center to an area of forest with two of bromeliads and opened them from 10:40-19:40. We didn't get any salamanders, but our guides found a green olubrid and a galapagos in the general area of the visitors center. We drove down to Buena Clues and met Carlos Alvarenga, the park manager, on the way down. He had collected a Guaragator for us near town. We packed our stuff and drove away from the alluvial, but slid partway off the road on the way up. We discovered that the 4WD didn't work at all and the tires are nearly bald- so much for Quetzal Rent-a-Car. A bunch of people came to help us and we got out after ~1hr with the help of another pickup truck. One of the guides had a daughter with Hemmophagic dengue fever, and we gave him a ride to Copacabana before driving to the San Pedro Sula airport, where we rented an SUV with 4WD that (presumably) actually works. We continued on to Tela, where we spent the night at the Hotel Vista Maya. Punta cayo area, Tela, Dept. Atlántida, Honduras Aug.31 At Ted's insistence, we spent the day trapping turtles. After a morning of kayaking in unsuitable freshwater water, we hired a boat that took us to a [illegible] lagoon W of the Rio Leon. We put 8 traps in at 16:00 and took them out at 17:15; got 1 juvenile Eretmochelys. I also found a dead Kinisterman on the beach at the end of the lagoon near the ocean.