We were up at vanga fart to revisit the spiny forest in the sunlight. What a feast of activity and creatures greeted us, a very sleepy sportive lemur (the elusive white-footed) looked down on us from his bedroom in an octopus tree, we saw the endangered radiated tortoise who was quite beautiful and protested loudly when we picked him up. The bird life was abundant and easy to spot due to the singular nature of the octopus trees and the lack of foliage -many different Vargas, the lesser vasa and fodies. It was soon very warm so back in time for breakfast by the plunge pool!
The remainder of the day was a time of total inaction the temperature was in high 30’s with no air conditioning only the coolness of the plunge pool and the shade of the tamarind trees to offer relief. Luckily we had this blog to write to keep our minds off the heat ;). At 5pm we had a Madagascan biology lesson with Franklin our guide playing with warty chameleons and pill bugs. 6pm we set off in the safari vehicle to have gin and tonics and watch the African sun set in cooled by a lovely southerly breeze.
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