Another beautiful day...

The rain ended and today was another beautiful day in paradise.

Today we tried to lay out a grid of traps. Buzz had the goal of setting out a grid of 25 traps in a grid with 25 meters between each trap. In the scrub under the tropical sun it was incredibly brutal. After a couple of hours, I was exhausted and soaked with sweat. And our GPS was dead. Buzz and the students managed to set out 20 traps on the grid.

We had set traps the day before along the road. We checked the traps and found only a single mongoose. The mongoose was already tagged -- we had caught her first in 2007 and again in 2009. She was an old female with almost no teeth left. Somehow, even without teeth, she's managed to hang on. We wonder what they eat after their teeth give out.

In the evening, we had the chance to go out and see baby sea turtles again. Daniel had seen the before, but Charlie hadn't, so we took him out. Luckily, just as we arrived, two scientists arrived with a bunch of baby turtles, so we got to see hundreds of baby leatherbacks. We stayed for a half hour as they got started processing them, and then headed back. I was glad Charlie to to see them.

Originally, we were supposed to out with a guy to catch bats tomorrow, but it turns out that the owners of cottages are having a pig roast, so instead we're going to do that.