Scorpion, scorpion, scorpion, scorpion
Clearly part of the draw of Costa Rica is its fabled biodiversity and we have been reeling in its wondrousness, wonderosity, whatever...every day since we got here. Each day (or more likely evening) we find some critter in the bathroom or kitchen or under the bed and largely it is very interesting and very cool. Not always though. A cool critter to see in your bathroom After the first few weeks we'd been here I turned to Tom and remarked that I'd heard the word scorpion more since we arrived in Costa Rica than I'd ever heard it before. I had honestly heard scorpion attached to the classic rock power ballad Winds of Change more than I had to an actual living creature. And then I'd read somewhere that the creature to most watch out for is a scorpion: spiders and snakes will largely slither/run away from you, ants and stuff you largely get used to or protect from (clearly I will need to revisit this thinking whenever I get bitten by a bullet ant or hawk tara...