So yesterday I had my first day collecting. I hiked all morning and luckily I caught a few of my butterflies. The weather is definitively not cooperating, it's been cloudy all the time and rainy. There is a lot of cocoa trees around the area so we tried the fruit. It's a big yellow fruit that grows off the trunk of small trees, the fruit is delicious and doesn't taste like chocolate at all. It's filled with big seed that are surrounded by a white pulp that you remove and eat, it's sweet a but sour like a mango-apple combination, very good!!
In the evening Matt and I went hiking in the evening to a nearby off road trail looking for butterfly aggregations but no luck. When it got dark all of a sudden we heard two angry dogs approaching and barking at us. I told Matt "man just be cool and don't run" , -I was freaking scared- they got really close to us barking like crazy and all of a sudden a country man showed up and took them away. He was just doing a round guarding his property. We also walked down hill to an amazing river where we chilled for a bit and took some pics.
Both nights we've had a lot of rain, in particular yesterday night. This morning was even cooler... I went searching for the flowers that my butterflies like but no luck...It was a very humid morning with some drizzle. Well that's the field... It's still raining and it's so cloudy that I can't even see the mountains...
PS: no places to rent a board :(
This blog is about my adventures while doing research. Yeah this is what I do, this is what I love, and hopefully will continue to this until I die...
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