I woke to rain today. Pouring rain. Ran from out room to the shower in a separate building. Visited a dairy farm. Came very close to being peed on. We were supposed to climb fox glacier, but because of the rain and wind it got cancelled. That was a bummer, but thats the way the cookie crumbles. We had dinner at a local dinner and I had a very nice steamed pudding with custard. After dinner one of the girls and me took a hike through a local trail. We heard that there were glow worms on the trail. Ho boy. It's pitch dark and we're walking through this deep rainforest full of undergrowth. No light is filtering through the canopy. I got a flashlight and I'm leading, but I kept thinking I saw eyes in the forest. We comforted each other, there's no large predators in this country, right? We walked for like a half hour, growing less sure of our path the entire time. I felt like I had a good idea of the direction the path was going, but how could I be sure we didn't get turned around. We hadn't seen any of these "glow worms" yet, just shadows and imagined creatures. So we stopped an turn off the flash light. And the forest lit up. The worms are like stars embedded in the trees. It was spectacular.
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