Tonight, we went out for a second night walk. Last night, we basically stayed on the road and the well marked paths close to the lodge area. Tonight, we ventured into the real jungle area. Our faithful guide, Sylvester, who up until now tolerated our goofing around and stupid questions well, pulled us together and gave us a little speech that, whether it was designed to or not, sufficiently scared us into our best behavior. It basically boiled down to this: "We are going into the primary rainforest in the dark. There are leopards, bears, and poisonous snakes and insects. I have not weapon with me. So, stay close and be quiet."
We saw some insects, a very large scorpion, a tarantula, a flying lizard, multiple strange and large spiders, and the biggest find of the night was the Bornean Horned Frog. This, apparently, is one of the holy grails of the night search among the guides and promted Sylvester to get on the radio and raise every person walking out there. This included the large Martha Stewart entourage (minus Martha for some reason).
On the way back to the lodge, we found a large green tree snake (fortunately in the tree) and then returned to our cabins for shower #3 of the day and sleeping.
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i love the middle frog picture from behind. i can't wait to show these to the girls. we found 2 "richmond" tree frogs in our backyard...actually, mulch frogs and they watched them for almost 30 minutes.
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