Day
Three: Swim and run and…bugs!
The
scenery is awesome, the ocean like a bath and the birds are still thrilling me
but the bugs during the rainy season here are clearly the dominant species. I
have only been here two days and my arms and legs look like I have some sort of
scary disease, they are so pocked with red bumps of all sizes and complexions.
The ants have already trained me to wash my dishes and clean up after myself
well in the kitchen just as soon as I finish. The katydid obscuring my laptop
screen was cute as was the shovel-nosed leaf hopper on the table but the piece
of parsley in my soup that turned out to be a large moth was not. Even though
the pitcher of half and half for my coffee is in the fridge, it comes out with tiny
floating gnats and there’s a large spider on the wall above my bed that I have
to relocate before I go to bed. More pleasantly, dusk seems to be the time of
dragonflies when they swoop and swarm in the dying light and the presence of
all these bugs means that adorable geckos chirp in the rafters each night. I
only wish they and the bats would catch more mosquitos. Since they obviously
can’t keep up. I am going to ask the local medicinal plant guru to help me make
a topical infusion that might keep them at bay—I can’t go out in public like
this!
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