Oh that's a good point! Would you believe I didn't think of that--that I could just *buy some Dove soap here*? Sometimes I can be so dense.
The meal was delicious: I'll copy in what I wrote for Sovay--The meal contained a small (and delicious) piece of tapir meat and some fish whose name sadly I didn't catch, plus the rice, plus the fariña de yuca--the coarsely ground, roasted cassava--and then a spicy sauce for the fish with tomatoes, onion and things, and a piece of roasted plantain.
And I should have said in the main entry about the water lilies that when they're young, they're little and scrunchy and red, like the one you can see in the middle ground, and they they sort of unfold and greenify. And then when they fall apart, their walls go first, and then the middle part slowly decays away.
And the way they are fertilized! The flowers open at dusk, and a beetle flies in. Then the flower closes around them, and it spends the whole night in there. When it opens the next evening, the beetle flies out covered in pollen and goes on to cross pollinate another flower. And this page says that the scent the flowers give off is "butterscotch and pineapple"!
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The meal was delicious: I'll copy in what I wrote for Sovay--The meal contained a small (and delicious) piece of tapir meat and some fish whose name sadly I didn't catch, plus the rice, plus the fariña de yuca--the coarsely ground, roasted cassava--and then a spicy sauce for the fish with tomatoes, onion and things, and a piece of roasted plantain.
And I should have said in the main entry about the water lilies that when they're young, they're little and scrunchy and red, like the one you can see in the middle ground, and they they sort of unfold and greenify. And then when they fall apart, their walls go first, and then the middle part slowly decays away.
And the way they are fertilized! The flowers open at dusk, and a beetle flies in. Then the flower closes around them, and it spends the whole night in there. When it opens the next evening, the beetle flies out covered in pollen and goes on to cross pollinate another flower. And this page says that the scent the flowers give off is "butterscotch and pineapple"!