Rather than retype or cut and paste the backgrounder post, it'll be here.
The background for THIS post I will cut and paste....
...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.
(That whole post is here.)
Then...
...because, YES, there was slug licking.
Even after Yeti was witness to the following conversation....
me: "C'mon, Les, *everyone* licked a slug when they took us down to the Park every year. You just won't admit it."
Les: "Uh, no, Jen. No one licked any slugs. I don't even know wtf you're talking about. "
Yeti and I both did it though. And, once he actually downloads and sends me the pictures, eons from now, I'll prove it to you. Well, that *he* did, anyways. There's no photographic evidence of me licking no slugs.
Hey, I may be crazy but I'm not stupid.
(that whole post is here.)
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When I spoke to Tim a few weeks ago about the trip, I was shocked to hear that Yeti hadn't told him the story of the slug! (hee hee)
Tim's comment to my telling of it was, "Well, Jen, you know that out of the three of us, he's probably the only one you could have talked into that."
Whether he meant Yeti is more adventurous or less bright, I'll leave you to decide.