On Sunday I was driven from my jungle hike about 11 am by a driving
rainstorm. Unfortunately it continued through the day so further
attempts to work on my monkey photography were squelched. It was one
of those rains that if we got one like that in Denver, there would be
the mayhem of closed roads and many flooded intersections. There is
no way our existing systems could handle such a deluge.

When darkness descended on the jungle though an amazing sound began to
emanate from it. Frogs. There had to be millions singing to make
that much noise. And it also brought all kinds of frogs out in the
lodge area with their being all over the sidewalks. The toads come
out every night and station themselves next to the path lights where
they feast on the bugs that are attracted to the light. I have seen
this in other tropical settings. The result is very fat toads with
almost zero energy being expended to feast on the bug supply.
Unfortunately I wasn’t fast enough in the dark conditions to catch
that action.

So just a few shots of the couple of spider monkeys I encountered,
some of the frogs and toads and the rain. I recorded the frogs (the
black photo) singing but I do not know if the sound will come across
properly on this post. The hum you should hear is the frogs but my
camera microphone did not do them justice.