Burning Palms

While Mary slept off a heavy cold, I continued with a walk we had planned to join with friends from our French group, Ludivine, Agnès, Helen and Greg. The weather was perfect and the route took us through widely varying vegetation, coastal plains, forests, palm jungle and temperate rain forest. We saw a dramatically coloured large caterpillar and I was 'leached'!

I removed it with a salt spray at the end of the walk, in the grit of the car park,  but by then it had it's fill --Yuk!

In the first pic Helen stooped to examine a large dead rat by the path--a lunch prospect, maybe?