Frogs!
June 26th, 2008 , 17:46
Did I mention we are in a rain forest? During rainy season? The thing I didn’t put in the blog yesterday was that it rained. Poured yesterday. Thunder and heavy rain. We walked between rain storms. So I was expecting lots of rain still today. Instead we woke up to sunshine.
After breakfast, at 8.30, we had our walk down to see frogs! Lots and lots of little brown and black frogs, very cute. All along the stream bed and Joe tried to get a few photos. Oh, we also went into this ravine where there were birds nesting. Oilbirds which were nice. Joe stayed in the cave for ages getting photos (check the panoramio site) while I went out to find more frogs. (Actually I did watch the oilbirds – they are quite nifty. There were two at the back flying about and squabbling so quite interesting. And the photos are very nice indeed.)
A horde has descended. We did have there centre more or less to ourselves. Another couple turned up last night and it was just us. We’ve been quietly sitting and chatting and generally birding; they also came to the oilbird cave with us. But when we got back the entire veranda was packed with a tour group that are here for a few days. I think we hit it just right though – we had the small group of about 9, then the place to ourselves and tomorrow morning we leave.
This afternoon we head out to see if any leatherback turtles come ashore at Matura beach. I’m looking forward to that! Frogs, lizards and turtles in one day!
