Puerto Maldonado, late December 2018

[Drunk Monk]

Capybaras FTW!  FUN FACT: Did you know that those are actually fish?  At least, it is so according to Catholics (sorry Greg).  They are a major protein source for many South American countries, so one of the Popes (Pope Haven't-read-Darwin-ignatious) declared them as 'fish' because they spend most of their time in water.  Let us know if you eat any.  I'm sure PPFY would bite at some Capybara haggis.

Tara tells me you have to do the stingray shuffle in San Diego beaches too.  She and her friends call rays 'majestic sea flap-flaps' and now I can't call them anything else.

I don't like bullet ants.  When in Costa Rica rafting the River Pacuare, we followed this Tarzan native kid (srsly, the dude was super buff and only wore a loin cloth) for a short hike in the rainforest.  At one point, we had to crawl under a log that fell across the 'trail' with a column of bullet ants, big as your thumb.  He told us not to get bitten.

Inline pix please, cf.  I'm always afraid to click your links because they might take me to more amputee spacesuit porn, and the cookies those sites leave are weird.

Your tale is starting to get very Heart of Darkness. That's on Tara's reading list this quarter, so I've been thinking about re-reading it, but maybe I'll just read this.