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Points, Year
2013
Journal
June 3 San Francisco el Potrer, Montanas de Cielos, Depto Huancabamba, Australia (cont)
... They've cut tons of trees here and there are lots of piles of boards +
sawdust. These looked ideal for Salamander but [illegible] we saw none. It
started to rain around 13:15 so we came back, ate + prepared specimens.
At 20:15, we walked out on the main road to the big grassy open
area along the road to the town of San Francisco el Potrer. It had
stopped raining around 19:00 after raining quite hard most of the
day. I went down into a sinkhole ~ 4-5m deep with messy, wet
rock walls + found a big adult [illegible] in a crack. Should be
P. rex here, but it has a lot of brown on the tail and a very light
anterior region. We found another 7-8 sinkholes, some really deep and all
in the middle of the grassy field. Many had a deep hole at the bottom
where water drains. Carlos + Jacobo got 4 more [illegible] and
a Scalopus in one, and I got a B. rex. We went back to
camp at 23:00 after exploring all the ones we found. I was
surprised to see Australian [illegible] in a cave-like habitat, especially
without any trees around. The evening was cloudy and cool, with a
tow of perhaps 10°-12°C.
June 4 Two guides from town joined us at 06:30 ready to [illegible] work; we had
been told no one would be helping us. After they helped put in
pitfall traps for shrews, they led us to a big cave ~ 25 min from
camp. It had a moderately large entrance w/ a steep slope down to
a single big room w/ lots of dripping water and beautiful rock
formations. They call it Cueva de Despertura. We found nothing
inside. We walked back to the highway + got a few [illegible]