Hi all,
A quick request first up.... please comment!! Could you please let us know any news from back home.... we just heard about troops being sent to Dili, E. Timor, what else is happening??
Today is Sloth Day - no, we weren´t really lazy! We just saw heaps of sloths (perezoso).... in the morning it was a walk through the nearby Parque Natural Metropolitano where we discovered our mosquito repellant sunscreen doesn´t cut the mustard...itch, scratch, itch.... but we did come across an Agouti (rabbit sized ground-rat thingy), an adolescent crocodile, heaps of turtles, a few frogs and monkeys flying through the trees.
Then we got put into an unmarked minibus, which we were told was a bus across the nearby causeway to the local Marina. Here we found a Smithsonian-run marine park, with a very helpful guide and SLOTHS!!!! (We know sloths aren´t aquatic, but they were the highlight of the day!) It certainly beats seeing Ronald McDonald play electric guitar for the kids in the nearby Shopping Mall!
By the way, if you didn´t know, unfortunately our volunteer work with bats fell through last minute... so Phil´s off on a mission trying to tee-up some volunteer scientific diving with the Smithsonian instead.
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