Home from Hawai’i. I saw lots of fabulous plants and waterfalls, but the most memorable animal was the gold dust day gecko, Phelsuma laticauda. This, I now realize, is the gecko anthropormorphized as the mascot for GEICO insurance (though for some reason they disregarded the bright blue eye ring when they made that CGI critter).
We hiked a new-to-us trail in Malibu Creek State Park, steep and almost overgrown in parts. It’s unclear why it’s called Phantom, except perhaps that hardly anyone goes there? We didn’t encounter any ghosts, but we did see some out-of-season wildflowers in the wetter areas to the north of the ridge.
Working on my Docent homework 😊
