After two flights, one drive to the grocery store, an hour long grocery shop, us trying to overload a Taho (I'm not actually sure how to spell that...) with our luggage and extreme surplus of groceries, then another trip back to the airport to pick up our remaining team member, then a drive out to the dock, 20 minutes of transferring everything to the boat, a 30 minute boat ride, and 30 minutes of unloading, we were all pretty tired to say the least, and sweaty (it was about 25 degrees yesterday, how lovely!). I did, however, manage to visit the hornbills! Hopefully today we'll get some lemur time. Anyways, picture time! Isn’t it nice to look at pictures instead of reading my rants about palm oil?
Fun fact! This is how you spell flotation, I always thought it was floatation...
Our trunk
Driving to the dock! Those are my feet, I had no other place to put them due to the amount of stuff we had to pack into the car.
The island has really large, impressive trees
Cameron
The wreathed hornbills
Rhino hornbill
Syrano trying to eat my camera, so awesome!
This is a rhino hornbill foot, it's about the size of my hand!
I leave you with a video of the hornbills making a display of some sort, they were all vocalizing and jumping around, pretty neat! Then some jerks (aka my research team) pulled up behind me in a vehicle and the birds were distracted by the sound, so that was the end of the display behaviour.
Glad you arrived safely. I'm looking forward to seeing more photos of those adorable lemurs. In case you're wondering, Holly and Lenny are fine, they miss you and send their love.
ReplyDeleteAww, Holly and Lenny! I miss them too, especially the way they just sit there and scratch themselves... jerks, haha!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you got there safely with no injuries!
ReplyDeleteToday, as I was having a terrible and long j-school day, I was thinking how much better your day probably was, and how awesome you are for doing this! Can't wait to see more photos and stories :) I miss you!