22:10 Because of the late night people didn't roll into breakfast, myself included, until around 08:00, 08:30 or even gone 09:00 so I didn't think about doing anything until 10:00 when there seemed to be time to dig up the Red Tide fish graves I had created in order to retrieve some interesting skulls and other bones.
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| A Very Orange Butterfly (D.Philpot) |
The Barred Pargo and Blue Guineafowl
Puffer (fishes) I had buried appear to have somewhat disappeared as despite
secretly marking the graves their bodies seem to be illusive just now. I learned something about grave-digging and
about tree roots - more than 2 months or about 3 months was too much time to
leave them buried. However with the help of PS and SL we revived the intact
jaws of the huge Porcupinefish I buried which were cool to see. After talking
to ML I'm doubtful about the puffer although maybe there's hope for the Barred
Pargo unless some Black Vultures got to them first somehow.
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| Cool Porcupinefish Jaws I Salvaged (D.Philpot) |
Now pretty much afternoon snack time we
had to think about going on a stream hike, so once everyone had gathered we
headed off. We walked (through deep leaves), Tarzan-ed on the vine - where I
swung into two of the students, created a new swinging vine (Ja's idea), saw
way more water than previous hikes and the pool below the waterfall was
exceptionally high. Here people got some
shrimp manicures and relaxed for a good half hour.
Upon a late return I went out to work on
the data loggers at sea and PS got permission from ML to take a few students
out so he was happy to return to the water. When I was done I hung out with
them, where I had a "war" and race with Kat before returning for
dinner. We returned for dinner, I
somehow fixed my iPod and then we watched a movie called Fresa y Chocolat
(Strawberry and chocolate).