Ok, I might as well throw in an update just because I know you’re all salivating. You shouldn’t salivate though, I am un-saliva worthy. Save you glands for other, more important things.

Unfortunately I do not have many new and exciting exploits to report. Today was very busy, but very ho-hum. Mostly we are banging against deadlines trying to get both the expedition web site online along with a coherent plan to get argonaut journals underway.

Some fun stuff did happen today. A girl got hit with monkey poop. Although apparently we should get used to that as it is a fairly common projectile out here. A nasty stomach bug seems to have caught one or two people so everyone is being a wee bit paranoid and hand-washing-heavy.

At one point I did get to go up high on a trail and get a wonderful view of the cove and surrounding areas. The animals again were sheepish. I’ve gotten a wee bit jaded about them. I will be walking around, hear a howler overhead, and just go “Oh please, shut up.” Not in a rude way mind you. It’s just that all the animals here are so fussy. A bird gets within 20 feet of another and it’s “Aw! Aw! Cree! Aw!” and a shower of feathers. I guess it’s like New York, but not.

Perhaps one of the more surreal things I saw here was when some youth variety show hosts came over to interview the argonauts. They were “super cool!” “hey kids!”” types. They even had a man in a full-body cartoon dog suit, apparently he is the show’s mascot. Nothing is weirder than coming down a trail after seeing an ocelot and having six-foot dog standing in the woods and having him give me a high-five while yapping something “zanny” en espanol. Whatever, maybe it was just the heat and it never happened.

As sickness abounds here on BCI and the work never ceases. I shall be going off to bed now. As many who knew me back in my frat days can attest, I’m a big fat wuss who goes to bed early and never has any fun. Why would I change now?