We were more accustomed to holiday nightlife being a noisy disco and tequila shots, but not here in Drakes Bay!
First night on the Osa Penninsular we went on the night tour with "Tracie the bug lady" (!!!) and her partner Gianfranco - what an introduction to the nightlife of Osa!
Passionate, perhaps even a bit earnest, but so keen to enthuse guests with their encyclopaedic knowledge. I'm guessing it's been said before, but they are inspirational.
Frogs (or ?toads) galore - huge, tiny, poisonous, hallucinogenic, they were all universally slimy. As you can see, I wasn't taking notes.
Spiders with their green eyes ablazing, by the thousand, huge, tiny, poisonous hallucinogenic ( or was that the toads ? - anyway, probably don't lick the spiders). As you can see I wasn't taking notes.
Snakes, huge, tiny, poisonous, hallucinogenic. There was a theme emerging, and clearly notes would have helped factual accuracy, but why let that stand in the way of an emerging thread. A spidery web of half truths?
We enjoyed the tour very much even the leaf cutter ants. Tracie, simply by dint of screaming at us, ensured that we only stood on a very, very few! Now, the leaf cutter ant is a most fascinating beast. The queen carries a tiny amount of fungus to the new nest, and the resultant workers carry particularly tasty leaves back to the nest to feed the fungus, that in turn they then eat and feed their queen to sustain the colony.... you can see how dreadful this would have been if I had taken notes?!
Quality night tour which educated, scared, scarred, and amused in equal measure.
I would have liked a bit more scientific detail from this post. As a scientist and someone who enjoys licking stuff, I would have thought a licked frog would have given useful context to their hallucinogenic properties.