Week 2 Santa Martha

We started to concrete the 4 lions trap cage in an attempt to make them a cave in the morning and then i was giving the joyous job of trying to trap the 2 lions so we could clean out their huge cage! Harder than it sounds even with the temptation of chickens they aren't stupid and don't like being trapped at all but eventually got both of them in while they chomped on the chicken feet and tried to jump and and claw me through the roof of their trap cage!

01 Concrete Monkeys

I thought, until this point that I had quite a strong stomach but was proved very wrong when the smell of month old buried green chicken complete with maggots made me gag like I've never gagged before! It was just after I had explained this to Sophie(a hardened volunteer very used to this stench) that it made me sick... after that no problem just swept it into the pile of rotting flesh and continued as normal. Lugging the rotting carcasses into the carcass pit was fun and as they are so heavy the easiest and quickest way is to lump it and sling over your shoulder. I smelt like a dead chicken for the rest of the day!

02 Crunchy On The Outside

The police by this time had dropped off  a baby Armadillo confiscated from somewhere in Quito, which the 2 new recruits ( a couple of trainee vets from Chile) were mothering and feeding warm milk to when we got back.

Armadillo have really got to be one of the weirdest looking creatures on the planet check the pics I was very lucky to have seen one close up.

After a quick lunch and shower it was my turn to go food shopping with Sophie. So armed with a list and $50 bucks we hit the town and went to work. This was a very good opportunity for me to learn some new Spanish and really relished asking for random staples and veggies. The towns folk are obviously very used to the Gringo's from Santa Martha!

03 Smooth On The Inside

04 Armadillo

05 The Vets

06 Nosey Cobesa

07 Crazy Ladies