Boogers with a Brain

Went hiking in Khao Sok National Park. The leeches were horrendous. Other than a couple of self-imposed adventures playing with leeches from ditches as a child, I have never really interacted with them before. They are tenacious little snot balls.

We started down the path and were enjoying swinging from the lianas vines and watching for monkeys and chasing iridescent butterflies for a photo. But before long Sandie got a small hole in her leg that refused to quit bleeding. We shouldn't have spent so much time trying to understand what created it; the answer was looking for us - voraciously...

After it started raining, we really started getting bit. We were pulling at least one of the blood-suckers off our legs every fifteen minutes. In a fit of rage, I had the quote of the day, "It's like flicking boogers with a brain!"

We had hopes of seeing a rafflesia flower, the biggest flower in the world that smells like a rotting corpse, but were turned back by rain and impending darkness. Not quite ready to spend the night in the rain forest...

High point of the day:
Sitting in a whirling dervish of butterflies on the beach of the Sok river. Amazing.








Low point of the day:
Pulling a leech off my big toe and realizing that it was going to bleed for a long time. And then realizing that I was going to get sucked many, many more times before we made it back to the road...