Day 5

Our research group decided to head to the San Vito today to find a site in a more urban and degraded area near the mouth of the river. We found a spot on google map followed it and ran into a dead end.  Luckily, our mentor speaks Spanish so he spoke with the farmer who owned the area if we could use his property to access the river. The man was nice and complied with us and even helped us find the access point. It was very difficult to get to and one of my group mentees almost sank and lost her boot in the mud. The area was heavily grazed and deforested and at least 1,000 ft lower in elevation than the forest we had been in the previous days. The area was very hot because of this and we were all exhausted by the end and very sweaty. We ate some lunch in town and headed to our next site that was next to a road. After that we went back to the station ate dinner and got settled for the night.