I went to Paulma this weekend to collect data for a project I am doing in one of my classes. We are looking at mycorrhizal infection in roots from root mats in recently logged areas and undisturbed areas. But thats not my story. Its a rain forest in the mountains an hour away from here so we left Friday and were in the forest all day Saturday collecting soil samples. It was raining. Really hard. All day. And the leeches, oh lord the leaches. They were freaking every where. Crawling up legs and on rain jackets and notebooks and seriously every where. Including my eye ball. My eye ball! A leech had somehow crawled into my eye ball and started sucking my blood with out me noticing. I did notice my eye was bothering me half way through the day but I just thought it was my contact, so i didn't think anything of it. Then 3 hours later I looked in the rear view mirror of the car and what do you know?.... a leech. On my eye. Of coarse, I started flipping out. Who wouldn't? It ended up falling off, having sucked enough of my blood.
Gross.
Besides that, Paulma is freaking sweet. Misty rain forest awesomeness. Love it.
Moms here, we're going to Sydney tomorrow.
p.s. I debated whether or not to spare all of you from this last picture. But then I thought that looking at a picture of what happened isn't nearly as bad as it actually happening... to you.
so deal.
4 comments:
OMG, OMG, OMG,
Super-K thats an awsome picture. Your very brave to put it in, of course I wanted to see it! And Leeches are always better than Maggots!
-Dr Jim
whine whine whine... a zombie leech sucked my eyeball...i still had the time to smile and look cute for a picture...whine whine whine im having the best time of my life...look i know plenty of leeches and if the one you had only sucked your blood consider yourself lucky!
haha. thats discusting, really. but i am really glad you are having a good time. and i know what you mean about changing, but it feels really good huh!?
woah - the exact same thing happened to Kitty Gehring when she was doing research in the Australian rain forests. Except hers didn't fall off and when she went to the doctor he said to burn it off with a match - stick a flame in your eye?! I swear if I go to Australia I'm going to wear swim goggles the whole time.
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