Hello everyone!
We have 5 new volunteers as of this week making us a group of 13 now! Everyone besides one dutch guys is really cool and has fit right into the swing of things. The dutch dude is extremely abrasive and annoying so nobody likes him. He is warming up to me b/c I called him an asshole and tend to feed it right back to him if he offends me or the others. He is used to being frank so respects me for being so to him. No problem man, I will tell you exactly how much you annoy me anytime you wanna hear about it! I have now made it a joke and like to just refer to him as Asshole or Dutch Asshole.
Me and Dan helped out at the oil terminal the past two weeks. They are looking to expand the amount of holding tanks they have and hired STENAPA to do vegetation surveys. A lot of the land is covered in awful Acacia trees with thorns that tear your skin to shreds but besides that we had fun being a part of it. Every morning we got to go to the main office and drink real coffee out of a machine and everything! I don't even drink coffee but I participated b/c it was such a treat! We would see how many cups we could drink before our eyes felt like they were going to pop out of our faces. I got to one, Dan got to four. He wins. We'd usually go back to the garden and rub it in everyone's faces that we got coffee and got to use a bathroom where you can flush for number 1!
We came across all kinds of creepy crawly things in the woods that were really awesome (from a nice safe distance). We found a spider egg sack and tore it open a little to discover 100 (I counted) spiders crawl out of it!!!! Holy crap it was maybe the coolest thing I've seen yet. Cool as in: I wanted to run away, scream, film it, and get closer to see what was going on, all at the same time. Of course, none of us had cameras so you will have to take my word for it. And I assume none of you would really like to watch a video of 100 spiders coming out of something that looked like a marshmallow. Am I right? Figured so. The best (creepiest) part was when we thought the show was over and Dan picked it up to look inside. He saw that the momma was inside and was huge! It came crawling out one leg at a time and all 4 of us were left screaming and absolutely fascinated. I forget what kind it was but something poisonous with red fangs (for real, I didn't make that up).
I have done a few more dives with Zoe and Dan this week. We spend most of the time clearing our masks b/c we were constantly making each other laugh. We went to a shipwreck and swam through the ship exploring what's left. I loved every second of it and can't wait to go again!
Tonight a group of us are going to a graduation of one of the local high school boys that we see everyday. He helps out at the dive shop across the road. He doesn't have much family here so asked us to come and all of us are happy to go support him. I hope their graduations aren't as long and boring as the ones in the states. Wonder if they'll have Presidente?
Still no turtles! None. Zip. Lots of garden and trail work for us in the meantime. Come on turtles! Do your thing..........please?!
Well I am going to try and upload some photos so I better get started or I'll be at it all night. Take care everyone! Hope that Missouri heat and humidity are treatin' you great! (Now you see how I feel but have no ocean to jump in to cool off: suckers!)
XOXO
Hillary
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