Day 5: Lemur Island

Breakfast with the whole group.  The last two people, Madhavan and Rich flew in last night.  We loaded up and headed up country in two 4x4 Range Rovers.  Very fast, very comfortable.

Our first stop was the reptile farm where they told us they had few species right now.  They said we could come back on our way to Antananarivo and there would be more to shoot.  That being said, we shot all kinds of chameleons and geckos as well as some of the very coolest chameleons I have ever seen.  One of them wasn't more than 3 inches long and his nose was at least one inch of it!  Everyone had fun and learned a lot.   We are building lots of skills for later in the trip.  That being said, people are REALLY ready for lemurs.

After a lunch stop, we hit Lemur Island and when we crossed to the island we were met by four black and white ruffed lemurs.  People were blown away!  When the first one jumped on Lynn’s shoulder, she said she was in Heaven.  She kept squeezing my shoulder and saying how absolutely happy she was.  Rich was grinning ear to ear and was already asking if we could come back here.  We went to the hotel and went right out on a night walk where we saw amazing things.  Tiny horned chameleon, butterflies, moths, frogs and a surprise Madagascar hedgehog were well photographed by our group.  Great teamwork and way better flash proficiency were fun to watch.  Tomorrow is another day.