We went to the McCaw clay lick one day and seven birds showed up, which apparently was a great sighting.
We were taken to the local Sharman (blue shirt), who described the different medicinal plants, how to prepare them, and effects of the plants. That was followed by a night jungle walk where we observed this walking stick, and many spiders.
The most impressive sight on the walk was the leaf eater ants. If it were not for the sections of leaves moving, you might not have noticed them. They were marking in a strip about 10 inches in width that stretched for at least 50 yards in each direction, and we did not see the end. The second picture is a close up of the first, where you can see the ants in more detail. We also had some nice sunset views from the boats as we returned to the lodge.
Sunday we walked through a lot of mud, and hot humid jungle to go to the parrot clay lick. There were two parrots there, but they quickly left and none returned. We than went to see the Capo tree, the largest tree in the area, also called the mother tree. Luis, our guide, is standing at the base. Can you find him? At one point Luis had us look at a small insect, which we soon realized was a snake about three feet from us on a parallel but reverse course. It is a constrictor, which I estimated at about six feet long.
Ryan was invited to join in the lodge staff versus lodge guides football (soccer) game. They played real hard core soccer, and Ryan hung in there. The game included a mud trap at one end of the field. While they were playing, this howler monkey moved over to watch. It was probably a sixty pound animal. The howlers create an unearthly, very loud, low pitched rumbling sound that sounds like a heavy equipment motor running in the distance.
Please continue to part three for the last of our pictures.
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