Today we needed to check some plants to measure their growth
rate. We planned to do those
measurements in the morning and have lunch in the canopy tower. On the way we saw lots of spiders, usually after we
had walked through their web with our
face. I saw a really neat vine blooming, the shape was what made it so
different from the flowering vines I have seen before. It reminded me of
trumpets and horns all bent up. After measuring, and on the way back I saw a
neat lizard. I only saw it because it darted across the trail. I heard some red
macaws. I think they sound like they are loud children playing outside and dogs barking
mixed. The coolest animal I saw was a
bright orange snake. I don't think it is poisonous because the head is narrow.
After the snake we went to the tower.
The tower is metal scaffolding stairs that go to a platform
at the top of a Ceiba tree. It is 40 meters up, or 120 feet. I had no
problem with the height but some of my team did though. I loved it up there. It
was cooler because of a breeze and it was amazing to see endless tree tops. I
loved seeing the epiphytic plants, the plants that grow on other plants. It was
the perfect lunch spot, even if it took
us an hour to figure out how to get there. I will definitely be going there
multiple times, like for sun rise and sunset, and another lunch. Yes I will be
going back to the tower.
Snake
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