 Quesla spent an exciting two days in the jungle town of Taisha. The third and fourth grade class at Nate Saint School had the opportunity to go on a field trip to the Ecuadorian Army base located there. We flew from Shell on an Araba, an Israeli made aircraft. Because it rained most of the morning, we waited six hours at the hanger. The kids played basketball and threw a frisbee in the huge hanger while they waited. |
 When we arrived in Taisha the heat was smothering. The first thing we did was take a trip to a waterfall in the rain forest. We rode in a trailor behind a tractor for forty-five minutes. Then we hiked for fifteen minutes on a muddy trail. |
 The waterfall was beautiful, and most of us enjoyed the water. Quesla watched from a safe spot. I don't think you'll have too much trouble finding Quesla in this picture! |
 We saw some very large ants on the trail. They are called conga ants. Their sting is extremely painful. (They first bite you, then curl around and sting with the stinger.) This ant was just over an inch long! While we watched, it attacked another ant which was about a quarter of an inch long. We're not sure which ant won, but after a minute the conga ant left the small ant alone. Needless to say, Quesla didn't get too close! |
 There was a large cage at the base with several kinds of animals in it. There were three different kinds of monkeys, a large animal from the rodent family, and a baby coati mundi. We were all sad to see that the coati mundi was dead when we woke up on Wednesday morning. We don't know if it was killed by the rodent-like animal, or if it died for some other reason. |
Quesla spent an exciting two days in the jungle town of Taisha. The third and fourth grade class at Nate Saint School had the opportunity to go on a field trip to the Ecuadorian Army base located there. We flew from Shell on an Araba, an Israeli made aircraft. Because it rained most of the morning, we waited six hours at the hanger. The kids played basketball and threw a frisbee in the huge hanger while they waited.
When we arrived in Taisha the heat was smothering. The first thing we did was take a trip to a waterfall in the rain forest. We rode in a trailor behind a tractor for forty-five minutes. Then we hiked for fifteen minutes on a muddy trail.
The waterfall was beautiful, and most of us enjoyed the water. Quesla watched from a safe spot. I don't think you'll have too much trouble finding Quesla in this picture!
We saw some very large ants on the trail. They are called conga ants. Their sting is extremely painful. (They first bite you, then curl around and sting with the stinger.) This ant was just over an inch long! While we watched, it attacked another ant which was about a quarter of an inch long. We're not sure which ant won, but after a minute the conga ant left the small ant alone. Needless to say, Quesla didn't get too close!
There was a large cage at the base with several kinds of animals in it. There were three different kinds of monkeys, a large animal from the rodent family, and a baby coati mundi. We were all sad to see that the coati mundi was dead when we woke up on Wednesday morning. We don't know if it was killed by the rodent-like animal, or if it died for some other reason.