Porto, San 2008 Journal Belen Hondo and Cerro Moriente, Dept. Ocotepes, Honduras (cont.) Jan.14 ... for a good spot and cut down about 7 big bromeliads from isolated big trees but got nothing. We drove back along the western side of the reserve and took a dirt road south, which quickly climbed up to an area with remnants of great oak forest and many big bromeliads on a hill (2000m) called Cerro Moriente. I cut through some ferns to a large oak tree and got a juvenile B. cranti in a big bromeliad. We searched here from 16:30 until 18:00 when it got dark but found nothing more. The liquidambar and oak forests here in Ocotepes seem very temperate - strange to see so many bromeliads. I think that this region merits further exploration. We drove back to Santa Rosa and prepped animals. El Portillo de Ocotepes and Arbolos Merendon, Dept. Ocotepes, Honduras Jan.15 We drove on CA4 to the high ridge at El Portillo de Ocotepes and turned south on the road to the microwave towers in la Reserva Aiiisayote. I have a military checkpoint at the entrance, supposedly to keep woodcutters out, and sent a soldier with us. We drove just past the turnoff to the towers and then walked south along the road. We wanted to take a turnoff to the E that dropped down below 2000m to get B. cranti but missed it and never got lower down. We got a M. moreletii and a N. rossii along the road and quickly got into an area of nice cloud forest with big bromeliads. We opened them from ~12:30-14:30 or 15:00 and