Little Frog

Today began with rain. No real surprise there. Some of the team was very tired from staying up and finishing the Return of the King last night, I was not. I woke up even without my alarm for breakfast. We had a quick breakfast because we were getting a boat ride to our trail today. The boat ride was short, only five minutes. We were pleasantly surprised that the trail we wanted was out of water. In fact, we did not have to wade at all today. I wanted to, sort of, just for the experience, but didn't want to because I would get cold and have really wet smelly clothes for the next day to wear.  The trails we did were anaconda to lago to guachomayo to maquisapa. We had a very productive day. We finished checking gauchomayo and maquisapa. While checking we were able to get 27 herbivore cups.  My favorite thing we found on a Inga was a tree frog. It was so cute. It crawled onto my hand  and stayed there all happy while I took down the data for our plants. It then stayed there for another five minutes. I was able to get lots of photos of it. I finally had to leave but the frog still wanted to stay on my hand perfectly camouflaged with it. It took three tries to encourage the frog to crawl off. The frog gave me a look that said okay if I really have to crawl off I will, but I don't want to. I would have loved to have spent the day holding the frog and then watching it, sadly I could not. While working on Maquisapa, M.J. was very nervous about seeing more pigs. She really does not like them and finds them absolutely terrifying. I was not worried at all and wouldn't have minded seeing them again. We had lunch next to the lago. M and I ate lunch in the boat while everyone else ate on shore. I really would have loved to spent an hour or two just floating on the lake. We were not able to go out at all on the lake because we had a deadline of when we were going to be picked up again, and T feels a lot of pressure to collect as much as possible while I am here.  It turned out to be okay we did not go out on the lake because it started raining, not a hard rain just the typical soaking soft rain.  If the weather and time and the river had all worked out just right I would have liked to have gone on the lake one last time. With how time worked out we finished our work right as the boat arrive to take us back to the station. We were able to do all of our work before dinner and have about 20 minutes of free time. That was nice. I was able to get some pictures of us working in the lab today. I am glad I did because we have not had any lab pictures of us working in the lab. Yes I am in some of the pictures. I also realized that if I did not get the lab pictures today I would not get them at all.