Monday, June 1, 2009

Amazing Race blog post 7-Final Destination

This is my last chance to find the rare species of monkey I am looking for luckily I have failed to loose hope. Though my chances may seem thin with the progress I have made throughout my travels I am hoping I will find the monkey in Madagascar. I am going to Turtle Bay. Madagascar is known for its large lemur population and was also mainly noticed by kids when the animated movie came out and is important because like Brazil it has many species that cannot be found any other place in the world meaning we have to protect them and their homes so that the animals don't go extinct. Earlier this week I bought my plane ticket which cost about $1,130 and took the first 1 way trip to Madagascar. I was excited because I have always wanted to visit Madagascar but I also couldn't wait to get this trip over with and go home. Traveling the world in just a few weeks is a lot of work unpacking and repacking over and over. I am visiting turtle bay in Obesalampy. Madagascar is a popular tourist population because of it one season climate and strange species of animals. Madagascar's capital is Antananarivo and is surrounded by 2 bodies of water the Atlantic and Indian Ocean and Madagascar is not surrounded by any country's. Madagascar is Mountainous in places but is mostly flat with a very healthy vegetation. Turtle bays coordinates are 40°45′19″N 73°58′03″W / 40.75536°N 73.967412°W. Today I went to the sandy shores of Turtle bay surrounded by lots of rain forests like the rest of Madagascar. I scanned the trees seeing lemurs every where I looked swinging from tree to tree. Among these lemurs was few monkeys one monkey being mine. When I saw this monkey a rush of excitement and pride overcame me. I captured it with out trouble. Few days later after taking a few photos and wrote down a few things I released him back into the wild. I took my last look at the rain forests of Madagascar out of the plane window and saw one one of my monkeys swing threw the trees and dissapear deep in to the forest. I was going home.

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