I'm actually typing this on Monday, but talking as if were Sunday, hopefully I don't get confused.

Today, Drew and I met ourselves 20 years in the future! Their names are Ted and Glenna, and they live in Ontario. He is Canadian, tall, thin. She is American, short, floppy hat and not so thin. They travel around in their camper, all over the States and Canada. Nice couple!! That's us in 20 years.

Last night, we and 10 other people went on a night walk through the jungle with a guide named Possum. I don't think his mother really named him that, though. Very Aussie accent, and it was hard to understand him. He knew every plant, animal and insect that exists! We had huge 'torches', and walked for about 2 1/2 hrs. We heard more than we saw, but still saw quite a bit, even for an almost full moon. We saw a spider that weaves a basket, waits for an insect to crawl in, then closes the basket and captures the insect. Drew got two really good photos of that. We saw native stick bugs (Randy had one as a pet, named 'Fetch'), they shed their skin at night so that birds don't eat them when they're wet. We saw a scrub fowl incubation mound. These small chicken like birds make this HUGE pile, basically a compost pile, about 20 feet in diameter. They lay the eggs in the mound, the mound heats up the eggs and they hatch. The hatchlings are underground for one day, clawing their way out and eating bugs and grubs on the way. Once they emerge from the pile, they are completely on their own, and ready for anything! We saw cane toads. They have no predator whatsoever, and are very nasty indeed. They were imported from South America to erradicate the cane beetle that was wrecking havoc with the sugar crop here. Problem was that the cane beetle lives on TOP of the cane, and the frog can't get them. So that didn't work so well! The cane toad is poisonous to anything that eats it. If a crocodile eats it, the croc dies. If a human touches it, you'll get sick. They race them in bars here. We saw a Boyd's forest dragon, just hanging off a tree. A female, her body was about a foot long, with a tail twice that. Just hanging off the tree!! And bats, lots of bats. Spiders, too, beautiful spiders. A few Huntsman, which our guide told us are NOT dangerous to humans. Lots of other stuff, too, which I am sure I can't remember. We were exhausted by the end of that walk!