THE MOSQUITOES ARE EVERYWHERE!
I'm getting eaten alive by damn mozzies. Boo :(
The beginning of the week was difficult trying to settle in to the slower pace of life here. I also found out very quickly how little there is to do here. Really there is nothing to do. Nothing. I'm getting a lot of reading done though. And sleeping. I also met some lovely backpackers here and they're keeping me amused as well.
Yesterday I went on a cross-island walk. I'm not sure of the distance but it took about 3 hours of climbing through the rainforest to get to the other side. It was beautiful and I'm really glad I did it. It was very strenuous and also quite treacherous. Some of the path (and I use that term in the loosest way possible) was no more than a 10 inch wide shelf of mud and if you lost your footing you would have been straight down a hundred foot or more sheer drop. A lot of the path also invoved grabbing onto vegitation and pulling yourself up an extremely steep incline by stepping from tree root to tree root. At one part, there were just little footholds in a rock face that was on the other side of a river so you had to jump from a tiny slippery rock onto an almost flat rock surface and climb up to the jungle path. Scary!
Needless to say my muscles are aching badly today. I was considering going for a swim in the ocean to loosen them out but yesterday I discovered Sea Slugs: gross, gross, G.R.O.S.S. They're the most hideous thing I've ever seen. They're exactly like slugs except they're about 15 times the size (cucumber-sized) and they can camoflage themselves so that you've just stepped on one before you realised it was there. (You can imagine the squeals and screams and shuddering that followed that lovely incident). And they're not just randomly about every once in a while. They're ALL over the ocean floor. Yuk, yuk, yuk. Bleugh :(
Will probably blog again from New Zealand - leaving for there on Monday.
Keep in touch everyone - email me with news and stuff!
Lots of love
xxxxx
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i bet the sea slugs have medicinal properties. i dare you to grab a bunch of them and just treat them as a new age remedy for aching bones ;) hehe.
Can't read this post Jenny. I saw 'slugs' in the title and I can't take any more. My mother just strolled into the kitchen with three slugs IN HER HAND! I feel so nausiated.
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