12:00 Went with my host dad to feed his
chickens this morning, Oso the dog didn’t help much and was being as crazy as
always – perro loco! And then we milked the cow again as he showed me all his
land properly as well as his herb garden.
He then told me a story of a student that had been staying with them
that went on a walk and went missing for 3 days as they decided to climb what
looked like a mountain to me where they broke their ankle (they were found and
lived, but still!).
I did some more Spanish reading, and
practice with my host dad. Not too long later I walked again to Casa L in the
rain, Oso tried following me down the garden path.
I met the cows that DL had told me broke
out (through some fences that are basically on a cliffside which you wouldn’t
think possible) and again no one was home. DL appeared from the bottom of the
garden, which is on a hillside so very steep.
I had a chat with ML as DL set-up another quick small plant-o-rama to
reinforce what I had learnt, where today I was interrupted by the oddest
caterpillar I think I will ever see that have a ‘Head Shield’ or ‘Mask’ looking
thing – turns out this turns into the infamous Common Blue Morpho
butterfly.
Anyway, I still need to type
up some notes on these plants on top of the tropical woody trees I have learnt
so far. I typed up the inventory for DL
and the station back at Cabo Blanco, then DL showed me how to make an African
chicken stew using peanut butter, as well as how to prepare plantains in an
alternative way. I got some time on the
internet which was good and I came up with a plan seeming as my laptop is quite
clearly no more…
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| Juvenile Blue Morpho (Butterfly) Caterpillar (D.Philpot) |
DL reminded me that the journey back to
the park would be quite different and logistically interesting as you have to
take 2 or 3 different buses depending on the timing. ML then gave me a lift back in his very old
jeep, that tonight smelt of a dead rodent mixed with trash, to my first host
family where I had to ‘break in’ through the back door.