Wake up call was at 6:00 am and Elise came to our cabin to try to wake us up, fortunately it worked. We went to set up our first quadrat (10 by 10 meter square) and picked a place that was full of different plant species, which was cool and all but was difficult going through the dense vegetation. I was a little scared to enter the area at first because it looked like we would expect snakes, especially vipers. Nevertheless, I was kind of excited since it seemed like a place that a harpy eagle would be chilling at. Unfortunately we didn't see one, but spotted a lot of cool fat fluffy caterpillars.
Today was out first day that we had lunch and we were just relaxing at the porch looking at the speechless volcano view with some triple stacked turkey sandwiches, just enjoying nature.
After that it was time for some straight up hard work. We set up 4 more quadrats that were tough and measured the pH and temperature at these places. Later it started raining and the sunset was approaching. We headed back to the cabins, rested a while and went straight to dinner, which was very delicious.
After dinner we just chilled back and relaxed at our cabins, then we all passed out.
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