Sunny Hotel Majungle Mahajanga

"Song Sung Blue" - Neil Diamond Song sung blue, everybody knows one Song sung blue, every garden grows one Me and you are subject to The blues now and then But when you take the blues And make a song You sing 'em out again You sing 'em out again Song sung blue, weeping like a willow Song sung blue, sleeping on my pillow Funny thing, But you can sing it with a cry in your voice And before you know it get to feeling good You ...

... and found a giant Parson's chameleon, also really cool. The rest of the day was spent looking for indri, and we were able to find two more groups. What neat looking animals, and the call is simply amazing. Its loud enough that when you are right next to them, it will hurt your ears. After the park Rose and I returned to Tana to spend one more night there before heading back to Mahajanga. Our Quebecian friends were going out and we decided to join forces ...

... added on later, was splitting off from the main house, like the sun had dried and cracked it. I remember the light during the dry season, when leaves on the hatufuna trees shriveled and crinkled, and the sky pressed down until only the cicadas whirred in their bowers of dry grass, and everything else lay comatose in the stifling shade. I built forts from Legos and seashells on our verandah upstairs, feeling the sun expand and split and fade everything, hearing only the ...