Thursday, July 22, 2010

I learned something important on an Eco-tour to Borneo some years ago.

When you are in a raft on a river and you notice bubbles coming up alongside, if there is one bubble it comes from a fish. If there are two bubbles rising from the river they come from a crocodile. If the two bubbles follow alongside as the raft drifts, the best thing to do is hang on tightly.

I learned something else, too. If you stop to check for leeches on your body under a tree in the jungle, why that is just plain stupid. There are constrictors in those trees and if they are hungry they can drop out of the tree and have you for dinner.

Another thing, in the jungle it is always best to be near to the person with the biggest machete! (See above paragraph).

But even then, that guy may not go after a hooded cobra who rears up from the jungle floor because the cobras eat the rats that eat the date palms.

And that's what I think about it.

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