Cleaning the jungle. . .

That's what we call it here. The others call it crazy folks moving leaves and branches around in the jungle.

After Miguel and Chiza found the sloth down (yes, there is a follow-up) they went back to pulling more of the leaves and fallen branches further back into the jungle. This is done because we have the leaf-blower that makes everything so much easier here, but if we forget to drag stuff back, it all piles up.

So, every couple of months, we hit the jungle to rake, scrape and pull junk further back so we can blow more of the detritus into the forest.

This time, Chiza was working a little further apart from the rest and encountered two small fer-de-lance snakes; venomous and small, which is more dangerous.

He dispatched both with his machete, though one did sink its fangs into his snake boots. No damage, hence why everyone wears snake boots while working in the jungle.

Now, this was off the beaten path, so no worries for anyone to come down this way, so gird up and don't chicken out.