House Guests & Hostesses. It Takes All Kinds.

I've never had anyone over to visit, except for Matt, so this has been a little bit of an interesting habit adjustment.

You know, the 'house' is what 100 square feet? It didn't really bother me when Matt peed or blew his nose in the shower, but it's kinda disconcerting when it's someone you're not ... you know.

Although, to be honest, since I pee every 20 minutes and Yeti stores water like a camel, it's probably harder on him than it is on me.

ha

Walking around Matheson Lake last night I had to stop and wait while Yeti crawled around on the ground taking a picture of the biggest black slug he'd ever seen, exclaiming excitedly the whole time. It was about 5 cm long and 1 cm 'wide'. Which is nothing really, not when you've grown up in the rainforest.

I was explaining about elementary school field trips when every autumn we all trooped out to Goldstream Park to watch the salmon spawn and die and lick a banana slug. I don't think Yeti believed me. Banana slugs are the second largest slugs in the world - up to 24 or 25 cm. and their slime is anaesthetic as protection against predators.

Tomorrow, we're leaving to head up island to Cathedral Grove and then on to Tofino and Pacific Rim National Park and as soon as Yeti said - "You've done this? Licked a slug? I'm pretty hard to gross out, Jen, but I think you've just managed to do it." then *suddenly* everything became clear to me.

Cathedral grove is the perfect habitat for banana slugs.

I'll give you only one guess as to what my goal in life this weekend is.

muah ha ha ha

Comments

[james]

ugh. i remember those things from family trips to the island to visit my grandparents when i was a kid (slugs, not Yetis). we'd find them everywhere. mostly, smooshed into green paste on the roads through whatever park we were visiting. the fact that they were (are) disgusting mobile boogers didn't keep me from playing with them. but *licking* them? jen? hello?

hey, do slugs pee in the shower?

[Jen, also]

No offense or anything, but me? I'd rather see your Yeti in his natural habitat than lick a slug. I'm just sayin'.

[Vanessa]

Ewwwwwwwwwwwww.

[Saltation]

people always used to joke about licking cane toads in qld. halucinogenic.

but yeah, aust. only has tiny slugs. i still get gobsmacked by the yooj black euro slugs