This morning Linda decided to stay back and be "Frog Mama" to the babies. We collected termites and she will feed this morning after we leave, and when we return, we will administer the second antifungal treatment.

Today we decided to concentrate our efforts on Cerro Marta. We thought that since the streams seem to have been infected for a while, maybe we could find the adult females in the forest. (Adult females spend their time in the forest before the breeding season when they go back to the streams to find their mate). It was very dark in the forest today, we thought that a big rain was moving in, but it turns out that the darkness was caused by an eclipse. Until 3pm we hiked up, and up, and up.....always looking for those little golden frogs, but here too, the forest was silent. We found one Colostethus and a couple D. auratus (again we swabbed because they were showing signs), and one Eleuthrodactylus (which Edgardo kept as a voucher specimen for Dr. Ibanez). But after one broken finger, a broken thumb, a bruised tail bone, a busted knee, discovering an old plane wreck, and an eyelash viper falling on Eddie's foot, .....we finally found a frog. She was gorgeous! Samwell had found her while cutting through some very dense vegetation with the machete. Finally we have hope.

Tonight we all tried to work on a species list for our trip up to now.....pretty amazing...toucans, cattle egrets, white faced capuchins, crabs, scorpions, mantids, kinkajou, anoles, Raadinia decoratta, walking sticks humming birds, armored millipedes, amevas.........that's just a few.