15:30 Did a good bit of bird spotting with the L’s on the front porch of their hut. We saw a Grackle that was washing in the stream and a Snowy Egret casually fly over. DL left and at lunch we had some group presentations in the lab, I still feel bad for missing the other ones which took place yesterday but nevermind, you win some, you lose some!
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| A Coconut Swarmed In Hermit Crabs (D.Philpot) |
After the student presentations I
released Sea Hares back into the wild and I was glad to find that some of them
were only playing dead,
22:20 Played Bananagrams for the first
time with some of the students which was great fun, it is nice sometimes to
just relax especially as everyone is looking forward to another great snorkel
early tomorrow morning.
The most interesting thing to occur
today was the Arachnid lecture and mini-hike. One of the students, with a
passion for all Spiders and Scorpions, gave an interesting talk before showing
us a surprising variety of really cool and scary-looking spiders within a
5-minute walk of the lab in the dark.
I got some good photos of these, though the highlight for me was seeing a spider I had seen on David Attenborough’s Life In the Undergrowth, which hangs down and holds web between its front arms in the form of a net and uses it to snare flies or other prey.
It is a great feeling when you hear about something amazing or interesting and then someone is able to say “look, there it is” rather unexcitingly.
I got some good photos of these, though the highlight for me was seeing a spider I had seen on David Attenborough’s Life In the Undergrowth, which hangs down and holds web between its front arms in the form of a net and uses it to snare flies or other prey.
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| Eight-Legged Friend Curled Up Inside A Leaf (Left), and, A Sideways View Of The Net-Casting Spider Seen On Attenborough (D.Philpot) |
It is a great feeling when you hear about something amazing or interesting and then someone is able to say “look, there it is” rather unexcitingly.