4th november : poke it with a stick

The walk to fragment S8 is beautiful; a red sandy track, morning light bringing out the contrast between the pitcher plants, palms and black-water swamps. The hazy mountains in the background. The pleasantly warm breeze kept me from overheating, everything perfect apart from a lack of lemurs, well our ability to find them at least. I’m happy anyway.

 In the afternoon I found myself a suitable stick and joined the ‘herp-sweep,’ prodding every nook, cranny and bit of leaf litter for reptiles and amphibians. We found a lot of frogs with long Latin names and a few snakes. When I get my head around all the Latin, I’ll let you know.