August 9th:
Today was SUCH an awesome, busy day. Our morning started with breakfast, and then a tour bus departure to our ziplining adventure!!
SciCREW and Team Erie geared up and, led by our 3 awesome guides, made our way through a 12 cable course! It was such an incredible experience. We saw quite a bit of wildlife along the way - a toucan, a tarantula, spiders, frogs, and LOTS of bullet ants. Our guides challenged us to speak "solamente en español," so it was great practice :)
Post-ziplininggggg!! It started raining the second we got back to the starting point - great timing!!
Felipe the cat who greeted us in the main office... Makes me miss Nala!
After ziplining, we came home, at lunch, tested our soil samples, and headed to a GIS discussion/ activity led by Jimmy, our ECO Classroom coordinator. It was super interesting, but very in depth and difficult to understand having never done it before. That being said, we got to try it out on the computers at the lab after the lecture, and it was really interesting to do! Essentially mapping out territory that would be useful for whatever situation you were working on. (For example, plotting where to place police stations on a new city based on high crime rate statistics. Or, where Jaguars are likely to reside based on water availability and vegetative growth) Very interesting but pretty complex - I'd be interested to find free software to use with my bio students if possible!
After Jimmy's talk we had dinner followed by an amazing night hike led by Gainer (our guide from rafting last week!)
We saw some amazing animals, including the ones pictured below. 5 different red-eyed tree frogs, 3 different snakes, an adorable porcupine up in a tree, a sloth hanging less than 5 feet away, more white tent bats... The list goes on!! It was a great way to end an amazing day:)
Bird-eating snake up close and personal! Sleeping in a tree, right at head level!
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