Saturday, July 25, 2015

Day 6, 7/14/15

     Field work has been continuing steadily during the night, but there is plenty of time for fun during the day.  Today we spent some time on the other end of El Yunque for some sightseeing.
     Our first stop was Coco Falls, which is a really beautiful natural waterfall that falls over some really interesting rock formations.  Unfortunately, there is a pretty serious drought happening on Puerto Rico, so the normally roaring Coco Falls was just barely a trickle of water down the rock face.  You'll see in a picture.
     After climbing around at the Falls, we decided to take a trip up a long and winding trail up to Briton Tower and the local high-altitude cloud forest.  Once we reached Briton Tower, we were greeted by an amazing view of the forest and scenes below.
     After the tower we hiked for just a bit in the cloud forest, where the high altitude causes the trees and shrubs to be stunted and small and for a large part of the local fauna to be noticeably absent.  It was a strange, but worthwhile experience, if you ever get the chance.

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