Unfortunately this morning I had a sore throat and was not feeling so good, so I had to stay in my room after breakfast. I did make the most of it however and took a nice long nap. There was some deafening thunder periodically that I could hear, often followed by periods of torrential rain.

While I was in the room the rest of the group went into the forest to collect the bug traps we had set out yesterday, and later half the group went out to find the camera traps we had put out a few days ago.

At around 3:30 vans arrived to take us out of Las Cuevas. We were a little worried that the heavy rains would have flooded the bridges we needed to cross to get out of the Chiquibul, but luckily the water levels on the rivers stayed low. The roads also were far less muddy than I expected, it seemed like they were a pretty firm sandy material that drained pretty well.

We stopped to place dinner orders right by our hotel in San Ignacio (there was some very interesting Karaoke performances we got to listen to) before we checked into our rooms. I got a very nice little bungalow with my own bathroom and a TV!

(update): the group collected and analyzed the data from the arthropod survey and camera trap research projects. We only found three deer on the camera traps so unfortunately that was not enough to make any conclusions about. For the arthropod question we did find more insects on the forest floor as we expected due to their being more nutrients there, and we did find that bugs like nutrient filled tubes (pee) more than control tubes, but contrary to our initial hypothesis that bugs in trees would be more desperate for nutrients and thus more attracted to them, we found the arthropods on the ground were actually most attracted to the pee. This could be that the arthropods that seek out nutrients most actively/directly are already on the forest floor.