I can tell you that we are in the Mexican state of Veracruz. We left two days ago from Vancouver Island, got to Houston, Texas and had dinner with Irvin Barnhart, a former Weatherby Award winner.

We then left early next the next morning and met Corey Knowlton, Greg Bond and Corey's cameraman, Tyler, at the Houston airport. I'm traveling with Bran as my cameraman for this trip. We flew from Houston to the Cuidad de Carmen in southern Mexico not too far from Guatemala. Then we drove most of the day to get to the city of Minatitlan where we stayed overnight.

Then we went through the province of Tobasco, then we left for this area, I don't even know exactly where we are. It was a lot of traveling and we were stopped many, many times. They have military checkpoints all along the road. We also got pulled over three times and the guys went through our luggage to make sure we were OK. I have my Alpine bow here. And the bow and arrow is no problem at all with these Mexican officials.

This first part of the hunt is for red brocket deer. We'll be using dogs. It's thick, thick jungle. We finally got to where we were going to be met by outfitter Alberto de Madrid. He met us and drove us another little ways on gravel roads to the middle of the jungle where we were met by local villagers with their dugout canoes cut out of a single trunk of tree with little outboard motors on them. We drove for an hour downriver on this absolutely stunning river. It's all limestone cliffs around us with spider monkeys and scarlet makaws, jungles and all kinds of crazy birds and fish in the river ... it's absolutely one of the most beautiful places I've ever been.

We got here late in the afternoon, so we didn't have time to hunt, so the guys went out spearfishing. They live on fish here and corn that they grow, and they went diving down so deep, I dove down, and they disappeared from my sight. They speared snook and a type of carp and a fish that looks like a sauger to me. We're eating those for dinner.

I went swimming. That's the first exposure these guys have had to Speedo swimsuits. I don't think they were terribly impressed. It is captured to camera which is totally disgusting. It'll never see the light of our TV show. But I did have a swimming race and beat all comers in the race on the surface of the water, not on the diving.

The villagers are going out hunting pacas tonight, a huge rodent about 30 pounds with spots all over them. We can hunt them, but only legally during daylight. The locals here are hunting them for subsistence, so we will go with them and observe tonight and see what that's all about ...