Herptiles and more

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After going bird mad when Gary the birdwatcher was here a couple of weeks ago, we have since changed our recent mania to herptiles (reptiles and amphibians) due to the arrival of a rather mental Swiss herpetologist called Conrad Mebert PHd. He is really a genetecist back home, but evidently has enough money to go on a mad snake frog spree in the Neotropics, catching as many things that creep as possible and taking photos of them. We went out numerous nights in swamps and on trails and came back with backpacks full of snakes and frogs for him to photograph. We also took a fair few, and these are on the blog.

We´ve also been to carnival, which takes place every sunday of February in puerto and where people can throw water and paint at you, just because. I had emulsion paint thrown in my eyes five times, and came back a painty splattered mess.

We´ve also had a couple more volunteers, Anna and Mark a british couple, and we´re meeting a new american girl, who´s here for a few days.

Aside from this, lots of rain and a bit too much computer work, monitoring a big breeding colony of Agami herons and a few other bits and pieces which should appear in the photos.

Hope you´re all well
lots of love
Yaz and Jack

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Photos

Boat trip up the La Torre River
Left to right- Georgia, Yaz, Jaime, Vikki and Jack.

Its sick and wrong
and we have no idea what it is

Hyla minuta
lesser treefrog

Phyllomedusa tomopterna
orange barred monkey frog

Sammy and Raul
a couple of Yaz´s English students

Jack and Wowie
Living on the edge

Yaz and Ara
still friends

Baby Caiman
we found about 25 of these on one of our caiman searches.

Comments

[katy]

so jealous! It all looks amazing! That Amazon horned frog is one strange looking mo fo xxx