Today was our first day at one of the other sites, El Garrapatero. It takes about 50 minutes to drive there, and then we have to open
the nets by 6am to maximize the time we can sample before it gets too hot. So,
this means waking up at 4.30am when it is still dark and stumbling into the
truck to head to our field site. The nice thing is, everyone sleeps on the
drive since we take a hire a taxi for the transportation.
Critters in the field
Many years ago, Jeff and Andrew decided this site was like
Middle Earth from the Lord of the Rings. I am assuming this is before Peter
Jackson’s trilogy came out because this site looks nothing like New Zealand.
However, it’s still a beautiful site, and different parts of the site have been
christened (in order of difficulty getting to and working in) the Shire, Rohan,
Amon Sul (Weathertop), and Mordor. Like the hobbits, we started in the Shire for our first
day. Unlike the hobbits, we wore our boots and did not take many hours for
breakfast.
Cactus flowers
I can understand why we stop at 10.15am. It gets so hot!!
More critters
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