In December of 2003, I traveled to Nicaragua together with colleagues from the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, in order to collect helminths of fish and small terrestrial vertebrates. We have spent in Nicaragua almost three weeks and collected by the cities of Leon and Chinandega, as well as on the Pacific coast. I was impressed by the beauty of the country and the spirit of the people. We worked in the field with our Nicaraguan colleagues and students from the local university. Results of the trip are reflected in several publications.

We saw a working volcano almost every day	Riding a boat in mangroves
Children ride a horse along the tide on Pacific coast	Canal in mangroves
Not edible!	Leafcutter ants at work
Vertebrates were rare, but insects were plentiful	Ants guarding their herd of aphids
One of the small fast running rivers	Iguana on the roof in Chinandega
Bread fruit	Cane toads have eaten almost everything that runs on the groups and fits in their mouth
These Rhabdias nematodes from cane toads lungs were described as new species	The three of us with our Nicaraguan hosts
During the class at local university	Low tide on Pacific coast
Peope in villages live in huts covered with palm leaves	Lizards were common since they can avoid cane toads
Getting my breakfast	And consuming it