Friday 23 November 2012

Cano Palma- Day 21

View from bunkhouse during flooding
It continues to rain! The water rose another 10mm yesterday and 4mm overnight. There is water spilling into the kitchen and when boats go past the waves flood in. We do still have power so far today. Mammal transect this morning was canceled due to the fact we wouldn't be able to see any tracks in over a foot of water. 




The herp walk at night we found two Green basilisk and a few Common Rain Frogs but it was very flooded "Balls deep and not in the good way" quickly turned into nipple deep. We decided to walk the boardwalk trail in hoped of seeing another caecilian. Wading through the water to get there there was a 4ft long Caiman on the trail! The boardwalk trail was still above water but the strawberry dart frogs, litter frogs and rain frogs were all becoming increasingly arboreal. We saw everything climbing on large buttress roots.
Herpetofaunal survey
Tink Frog sp.

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