Today we went on another nature hike! We got to see all kinds of cute frogs and little creatures. To the right is my friend Grace holding a little frog! After the hike we went on a small boat to search for caimans! We were able to spot a few once it got dark out by seeing our flashlights reflect in their eyes. Not gonna lie, I was pretty spooked out that our boat would tip and we'd be the caimans' dinner. We also went to a canopy observation tower at the Napo Wildlife Center. It is over 125 feet tall and you get views of the beautiful surrounding river, trees, and especially the huge variety of birds that are flying all around the area. We saw macaws, toucans, parrots, and crested oropendola. The picture on the right is the oropendola nest, which hangs around 3 feet from the branch of the tree. It's a pretty cool sight! After an exciting day of adventuring, we went out "spider hunting" once the sun went down. It was my goal to get a picture of the scorpion spider, which is called a tailless whip scorpion, on my face (only because they do not bite). Some of the other people in my group told me that if I did it, they would do it after. I was brave and went first and got an awesome picture out of it, haha! We also saw lots of other cool spiders, like the tarantula in the bottom right picture. Overall, this trip was absolutely incredible and a dream come true. Nature is so beautiful. I truly hope I will get to return here someday. Me and Ariana sleeping on the boat ride back to Coca :)
After arriving back in Coca, we had dinner and waited for our bus that left at 8pm. I was SO exhausted after getting no sleep on the 8-hour bus ride back to Quito. I felt sick to my stomach the whole ride, so when I got back to my house at 4 am on Monday, I decided to take a quick nap before leaving for my 8 am class that I had a presentation in. Except it ended up not being a quick nap, and I accidentally overslept!! I swear in all my years as an undergrad I had NEVER missed class from waking up too late, let alone missed a presentation, but I guess there is a first time for everything. I apologized profusely to my professor and luckily she was understanding and let me make up the presentation the next day.
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