Personal Narrative Essay: My Field Trip To Punta Culebra
On a cloudy Friday, at around 15:45 in the afternoon, me and Alexandra Theodorou headed to our field trip in Punta Culebra, located at the Causeway in Panama City. Very excited to find out what was expecting us in Punta Culebra, the first impression I got from that place was the nicest one. A very gentle guy attended us and told us that any doubts we had he could answer them and to not think twice before asking him for a favor. As I had never been there before, the first thing I asked him was that if he could please tell me where we could find the turtles, the small room with glass aquariums and the amphibian’s exhibition. He indicated us where were does three places located and then we headed that way. Punta Culebra was pretty empty on that
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As said before, turtles feed themselves with jellyfish and commonly they confuse these animals with the plastic bags in the …show more content…
We headed to that building and a young guy, who was studying internal tourism was our guide. Alexandra and I were the only two people in the tour, so it was kind of a private exhibition for the both of us. The first thing the tour guy said to us is that it was very important to know the difference between frogs and toads. The first ones have soft, moist skin that looks viscous, while on the other hand the toads are drier, have short legs and a rougher skin that looks very bumpy, like warts. He also explained to us that frogs mean a lot to Panama, since we are one of the countries with the largest biodiversity on the planet with 200 different species. This can be manifested culturally since previous cultures, whether for religious reasons or their tribes, fed on frog legs, or ancas de rana in Spanish. He also told us that our national frog, the golden frog is in fact a toad and does not exist in a natural state anymore, only in a state of captivity because is in extinction. One of the reasons because frogs are facing extinction are humans as well, because humans destroy their habitat. Another reason is a well-known fungus called
As said before, turtles feed themselves with jellyfish and commonly they confuse these animals with the plastic bags in the …show more content…
We headed to that building and a young guy, who was studying internal tourism was our guide. Alexandra and I were the only two people in the tour, so it was kind of a private exhibition for the both of us. The first thing the tour guy said to us is that it was very important to know the difference between frogs and toads. The first ones have soft, moist skin that looks viscous, while on the other hand the toads are drier, have short legs and a rougher skin that looks very bumpy, like warts. He also explained to us that frogs mean a lot to Panama, since we are one of the countries with the largest biodiversity on the planet with 200 different species. This can be manifested culturally since previous cultures, whether for religious reasons or their tribes, fed on frog legs, or ancas de rana in Spanish. He also told us that our national frog, the golden frog is in fact a toad and does not exist in a natural state anymore, only in a state of captivity because is in extinction. One of the reasons because frogs are facing extinction are humans as well, because humans destroy their habitat. Another reason is a well-known fungus called