I spent this afternoon training 2 research assistants who will visit my riparian buffer zone case studies in Jan, Feb and Mar while I'm as locals say, "off-island". Right now there is an enormous (as in thousands of people) political rally going on at the cricket grounds behind my house. The anthropologist in me says I should go explore the crowd, but the ecologist in me says I'm tired after a long afternoon of work and the morning beach-workout and not that excited about a large, loud, drunk crowd. So instead I'm going to post photos and listen to the bands perform and the speeches (I can hear every word anyway). It was a fun afternoon and we made a lot of progress!
Here are a few neat things that I saw along the way (If you want to see any photos more clearly, just click on them and they will get bigger):
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| How much vegetation do you see and how much exposed soil? |
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| Invasive African Snail- they are causing lots of problems all over the island. I should have killed it, but I hate the crunch n' squish that happens when I accidentally step on them, so I let this lil guy live... |
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| Slug trails on wild Dasheen leaves- pretty! |
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| Giant (4"+) slug having moved on from the Dasheen... |
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| Awesome research assistants! |
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| Check this out- this is the river where I posted the flooded bridge photos earlier this week. Look to the right of the bridge, the man-made baskets and bank engineering have all burst. Look to the left, the tree roots along the bank are holding strong! Yes, it's a little more complicated then that, but not much, sometimes nature just does it better... |
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| Another Cretaceous moment as the sun set fast! It is getting dark by 5:30ish this week- crazy! |
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| River fish! |
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| That's the Rally- all the yellow spots are people dressed in yellow to support the UWP... |
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i do recognize that bridge now! we were your research assistants that day :)
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That slug is huge!! Have you ever licked a slug?
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