Officially,
I am not a huge fan of: Wasps, Moths, Scorpions, Beetles, Ants and Snakes…
Well, it was hot and buggy anyway so I
couldn't sleep so I turned on my torch (flashlight) at ~20:20 and there… ONCE
AGAIN! Just at the point where I began to think "maybe I was
hallucinating," Sid the snake was in the rafters…
Quickly I turned my light off so he
wouldn’t retreat, I grabbed the infamous brooms and (after a small struggle) as
promised, on the last 500 metre occasion, I took Sid on a long walk to Playa
Balsitas!!! This is a beach that is normally about a half hour walk away…
actually takes about 20mins with a snake on a stick it turns out.
Along the way I was laughing at the
situation I was in with Sid, I almost stepped on a scorpion, stepped on Bactrys
Palm tree spines (oh yeah, I just grabbed flip flops seeming as I didn’t have
much time to make a better choice), and dropped/lost the snake once or twice as
he bailed of the stick. I battled my way over logs and under water drenched
plants, with moths flying in my face (due to my headlight) but I was glad as it
wasn't raining this time although… maybe this would just make it easy for Sid
to slither back. Once at the beach I put
him down on the rocks, then a wave came and he swam (almost faster than I could
walk/run) in the direction I wanted to go myself. I stubbed my other big toe
and thus broke my flip flops, so I ditched the snake and hobbled/ran with a big
stick along the beaches with only the lightening guiding the way as my headlamp
began to dim.
Now I am about to shower, relax/recover
a little, then sleep (peacefully forever more?). A millipede decided to join me
in the shower, and I just wanted to add which sums my feelings just now - damn
nature, you scary!
15:45 Now what I actually did Friday was
write up my statistics notes finally, most of which made sense. I practised my
Spanish listening in the lab using a CD and some other audios. A group of
people arrived to help sand down the benches.
I didn’t go snorkelling and instead read through more folders that DL
had left me including a shell-o-rama spin-off in the form of an insect-o-rama,
and then I slept to summarise the day.
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| Finally Got A Shot Of The Illusive Wood-Rail (D.Philpot) |
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| Lizard On My Hand (D.Philpot) |
02:00 So about an hour ago most
definitely the largest storm I have ever heard began to pass over with THE
LOUDEST thunder crack I will probably ever hear in my life (almost like a
bomb?) and now a torrential storm continues.
The lightning flashes are amazing, and I sit here wondering how 'big'
things will get before August.