At some point in the night, I was awaken by a few students because there was a nasty scorpion in the bathroom. Normally I would have tried to get it out without killing it but needless to say this scorpion was looking for a fight and was the size of my shoe, so I killed it, asked the girls if there was anything else they needed, and headed back to bed. Early morning wake up call was the sound of Howler Monkeys in the trees along with some other nocturnal animal dropping nuts on the roof of the dorm. Since I was up, I decided to take my morning stroll around the compound and enjoy the sounds of the rainforest.
After breakfast, we headed over to Ian Anderson's for our cave adventure. After filling out paperwork, we loaded up the buses and headed out to Footprint Cave. Since there is a lot of karst topography in the area, caves are predominate and cave exploring is a favorite past time.
Each student would be tubing into the cave. Since we had such a large group, one group would start at the beginning while another group would go further back into the cave and then work their way forward. Lunch would be served in the cave and all students would then drift out of the cave on the current.
Before heading back to the buses, those students, and chaperons, who were adventurous went cliff diving. Of course the local guides climbed trees and jumped from higher heights. I had to tell students that they could only jump from the cliff and not some place higher as they wanted to.
After dinner, there was a hot sauce eating contest. Only a few brave souls decided to participate. The contest sure had the rest of us laughing at the agony and pain the contestants but all survived after eating a few left-over biscuits.
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