Recent content by forrestdweller

no wildlife sighting worth mentioning lately, BUT i caught a group of poachers walking past my cameras a few weeks ago which allowed the land owner to take action... (i also caught him and his son walking past the cameras, thinking they can sneak around on their land without me noticing :P ) a...

the only (indigenous) instrument of this area i know of is a whistle made from the seed of the "corazon de mono" vine (=literally "monkey heart" due to their shape) to like the local music you have imho to be brain dead...

i admit to being the second most unmusical lifeform on this planet (==i can't sing, have no sense of melody and i someone asks if i can play an instrument i answer "only the fool") but there's plenty of bamboo around here, ssoo i can see a future project...

a game of thrones

a small swarm of native bees about 8ft above the ground (their nest is attached to the side of a coconut palm and smaller than my head): their activities were enough to stir the leaves on the ground

i haven't found any tree funghi around here which work, so my go-to tinder is charred punkwood. unlike some guys on youtube i only char one end instead the whole piece as it makes it easier to hold (tinder on top of flint, downwards strike with steel) because it's less fragile + i can get...

several species of poison dart frogs and canetoads (bufo marinus, it's part of their natural range around here )

flint and steel is my preferred method to start my daily cooking fire (the inly ferro rod i regrettably bought has been chucked away long, long time ago because of it's UNreliablity (it came from a swedish company daring to misname their product "firesteel"...)) -- my striker is a broken piece...

due to a VERY limited budget i'm surviving on rice and beans (can you spell :vomit::vomit: ?!), but i'm recycling the bags (and whatever other packaging i can't avoid),the rice i buy in 10kg bags which come in handy for a lot of things and the twine holding the bags closed makes good sewing...

friday i had a land crab walking straight into my kitchen (i didn't invite it for soup ), saturday i saw another northern tamandua in broad daylight (they're usual more nocturnal...) climbing up a tree, yesterday i almost stepped on a female iguana saturday morning i said "goodbye" to 'my' four...

i like your way of thinking.... (now i've to go back in the jungle and try to find it again... :P ) currently the tarantula wasps are busy dragging stunned spiders across my (gravel) floor and on my way to 'the office' i almost stepped on a mica (=non-venomous snake)

this morning i opened the chicken coop to find another chook missing: the culprit from two weeks ago was back and managed to get in despite closing last time's entrance... .unlike last time it didn't get out again, so i found myself dragging a p***ed- off 6ft boa constrictor out of a nesting box...

been out checking my trail cameras again, but but had a malfunction, so no videos (and some rough walking for nothing...)... i did however come across a northern tamandua (tamandua mexicana) which i didn't see for years, so i'm excited... they only eat insects but have strong claws so don't get...

to quote another famous spy: "i find that very hard to believe..."

i'm somewhat sure they weren't available in Stalin's days, at least not in the soviet union...