Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Nighttime Wildlife Spotting- By Boat

So one activity we did was Lawrence was nighttime wildlife spotting. This consisted of getting a boat in the pitch dark with a really bright light and driving along the coast, shining the light to find animals. All nocturnal animals have shiny eyes so you can find them with the light (or at least Lawrence can find them). They also do that "deer in headlights" thing where once you shine the light on them they freeze and can't move [Dad: THARN]

We rode in a motor boat along the shore and in a really creepy sort of way the engine kept cutting out. I'm not sure what movie I am thinking of but all I could see was a scene of a poisonous snake dropping into the boat as we passed under trees.

So the other thing is that when the engine would cut out, we'd drift toward the brush on the shore and we would without fail hit a branch with a really large spider web on it. So that was awesome, swatting my way through spider webs. Ick.

We saw:
4 Caimon (think small alligator)
4 Snakes
2 Lavapacas (this is the word I hear when they say it but quite possibly not the actual name of this animal... if I had faster internet, I'd look it up)

Lawrence told us we were very lucky for so many sightings, particularly the lavapaca(?) which is basically the R.O.U.S from the Princess Bride.

I spent a large portion of the ride trying to figure out what I would do if the boat tipped over. Thankfully, it didn't.

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