Apologises for not being in touch very much recently we have been having issues with the internet and we have only just managed to get in back in out apartment.
As such it now means I can now keep you all up to date with the going ons in Panama.
Not to much new news to report, we have all been working extremely hard at the moment. As the rains of July increase in number the nests are continuing to get bigger and bigger, with lots of babies emerging. Hence our work load seems to be getting bigger and bigger! One of our nest now has a count of 44 individuals (not looking forwards to collecting that one!)
On a sadder not both Solenn and Robin have now left Panama and are back in the UK and the US leaving Lawrence, me and wasps to finish of this field season.
As I don't have too much news I thought I would share with you all some recent photographs.
On an evening way home from work we got delayed in Colon for one of the huge Panama Canal Company Trains which carries shipping containers from one end of the country to another. These trains often carry hundreds of containers, move extremely slow and can take up to 30mins to pass. As such there was only one this to do get out and watch it go past!
Robin our saviour and the last minute field assistant left only a few days ago and as treat to say thank for you all the fantastic work he did we decided to treat him to a week in San Blas (this was also a great treat for me as I really wanted to go back). This time we stayed on a different island called Chichime which was a lot further out than Robinson Island and it was absolutely beautiful.
It was a much larger island (maybe 20mins to walk round instead of 10) and had a bit more forest in the middle. The family of Umberto lived on this island and they have only 2 huts for visitors to sleep in which meant that only 5 of us spent the night on the island. Really was our own personal tropical paradise island for a few days (and best of all no sand flies this time).
Robin, Lawrence and I spent most of the day snorkelling around the beautiful reef that surrounded the island and found a few great things to look at.
As this island was a lot closer to Columbia many sail boats were docked near this and the neighbouring island and many of their inhabitants came ashore in the evening and we were able to share an evening with fellow travellers.
Perhaps the most exciting news of the weekend was that whilst taking a walk around the island we saw several insect flying past us and as the three of us have our eye in for wasps we were all delighted to see that the thing flying past us was in fact Polistes canadensis and that of all the 360 islands we picked to go to we chose one that had a population of our lovely wasps!
How they managed to get to such an isolated place so far from the mainland remains a mystery!
Thats it for now must go, with only two of us left we have to get back to work!
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