Tuesday, April 24, 2007

The gate troll



The gate troll has never been seen outside his rolling home. He is lying on his bed all day long, collecting money from trespassers through a little window next to his pillow, and closing the gate afterwards with a rope connected to his bed. Modern technology is nothing new for him either: There is a mirror, impeding any intent of sneaking around the trolls home, without him having to move a finger... The area around the trolls trailor smells like urin, so we assume he doesn't even get up to do his business... what a life!

We found another dangerous species on the rocks... While I was giving a belay, Alexa, a girl from New York, almost put her hand on a king snake that was taking a sun bath on a small ledge. It attacked, fell down right next to me and tried to escape... I took the picture while it slid into its hideout. Everybody here told us it was a coral snake, the most dangerous species here in Mexico, and we should have killed it, haha!! Later we found out that it wasn't, we would have been really lucky to find a coral snake, because they are quite shy...


This encounter on the mini super wall was the most frightening one, after loads of geckos and millipedes, a squirrel, and the nasty 15 cm long centipede next to a bolt on jungle wall.

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