Today I saw lots of cool critters. This is becoming my new hobby. I saw a frog in a tree right outside our room. He was jumping from branch to branch. It rained hard for about half an hour, and that caused a huge centipede to scurry out of the rain gutters. He must have been eight inches long with a red body and yellow legs. Walking to the waterfalls several newts darted across my path. Later I saw a few great spiders sitting in webs about a metre across. Black and yellow bodies with legs about four inches long. Some of the ants here are interesting too: big black things with what look like spikes on their backs.
On my way back from the falls, walking along the trail, I saw a small piece of wood move. I got down on my knees and watched some small creature sticking out of a shell which looked just like wood. He would look all around with his head as if to see that the coast is clear and then pull himself forward about a millimetre. Then repeat. I turned him upside down and he wriggled himself right. Suddenly I realized that someone was watching me as my head was about half a foot from the soil. And I told the guy, look this wood moves. Well, of course, he stopped moving then, and this fellow probably thought I was nuts.
Today was the first day that I ate seafood. I'm getting tired of pork and chicken so I had a spicy salad with shrimp. It was very tasty, especially when washed down with coconut juice. That was dinner--taken on the beach with my feet in the sand. At lunch I had one of the best meals so far in Thailand. It was nothing special, just chicken and cashews and veg with a pineapple shake at one more little hole-in-the-wall restaurant. But was it good.
Below are some picks of the falls:
