09:00 I still find it hard to believe
the efficiency of how Coatis can climb trees.
I think I know, or at least I am narrowing down the direction where this
large family comes from, which would be cool to find out or to set up a camera.
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| Looking Down On Me (D.Philpot) |
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| Cute Coati (D.Philpot) |
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| An Anole (D.Philpot) |
10:50 In the past hour I have ‘dealt
with’ a group of artisanal hand-fishers, a boat tour group visiting the methane
vents (who swam when they aren’t supposed to, and shouldn't appeal to anyone anyway), and
a fairly difficult group of tourists.
Life as a park guard can be tough, I just want to go snorkelling and
carry on the fish surveys.
23:10 I saw 2 or 3 sea hares snorkelling
today, despite them “not being found in the lagoon,” so that was nice and
different.
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| A Colourful Juvenile (D.Philpot) |
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| Mexican Dancer Colours (D.Philpot) |
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| Hello Mr Butterflyfish (D.Philpot) |
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| Mojarra Grunt School (D.Philpot) |
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| Sergeant Majors (D.Philpot) |
After snorkelling there were
more tourists but they were nice and more respectful of the reserves
purpose. The German volunteer explored
the local town of Malpais whilst I got really close to a Coati whilst lying in
a hammock.
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| A Curious Coati (D.Philpot) |
The cute little guy wandered
about consuming fruit lying about on the ground and once his twitching nose
caught a whiff of some soda cracker pieces that I had dropped by the hammock he
inched his way over to them and took them with his paws. See how close he got here with Video 19. This time alone also allowed me to explore lots, sort
through some photos and update the latest fish ID and survey list.
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| A Magpie Jay (D.Philpot) |
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| Coati On The Bins (D.Philpot) |
This evening we made some superb fried
chicken dinner that had some random things thrown in with it but it was amazing
and well worth the note. I managed to
found my money wallet so feel temporarily rich, the red pen that I had been
looking for, for ages! And DL told me over the phone that I had made good
decisions in dealing with the awkward tourists that didn’t want to leave wanting 10 minutes more for some photos. I also found a spindly white Spider that folded all of its legs together to look like a stick when blown very lightly...
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| After - Stick! (D.Philpot) |
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| Before - Spider (D.Philpot) |