Well another week gone by.

I´ve only got one more week left till i leave my project and start my touring of south america. Getting excited but i will be so sad to leave Taricaya. My plans are to get a truck with 3 other volunteers to Cusco the Inca capital of Peru, where ill visit Machu Pichu and other ruins. From there Ill travel to Lake Titicaca and Bolivia, Nazca lines and then Chile.

Well the week just been, ive had quite a few disgusting jobs. Ripping down the old guinea pig enclosure (as seen in the photo). There was mud everywhere mixed in with old liquid guinea pig poo. so as we smashed the wood to pieces this brown sludge would fly everywhere. you can imagine it didnt smell nice. I discovered a giant fire ants nest. i think every single one of us got stung by them many times. i luckily had taken a glove but that still didnt stop them from crawling into my glove. Cockcroaches 4 inches big crawled all over the rotting wood,which we had to dispose of into the river. We found 3 different types of tarantula hidden underneath the structure too. One got pretty angry when Zander tried to take a photo, it reared up on its hind legs ready to attack. That day was the first time i have been cold since i got here, cold winds and very heavy rainfall.

Another not so great job was to carry large pieces of timber down a jungle path to a place where we are building a bridge (ready for when the area floods in the wet season). the path had been churned up and was a mud bath making it very hard to walk along. Some of the lads had to make the journey several times, most of us were aching by the end of it.

I went on a walk for observations and along the way we took a bark off a tree. The natives use it to make clothes out of. I spent that evening bashing it with a hammer to make it thin, then we had to let it dry out before i could sew it and make bags and belts.

On friday i was put on the reptile walk (we go around and check all the reptile traps) along the way i spotted a snake slither under some leaves, i pointed it out to the reptile man and he caught it. it was a Drymobius Rhombifer! erm it kinda lookslike a Fer de Lance one of the 3 deadliest snakes here, but its only a mimic so it was dangerous. Very impressed i actually spotted it though.

well my final week this week, plan to throw a party on friday to say goodbye.

xxxxx