Exciting food times! I ate a baby crocodile for dinner last night, and had wallaby with sago and river water coffee for breakfast this morning.

Generally the food here isn't bad, just bland. And so as a result I end up craving these expired Australian imported vitamin C chewables. They're nice and tart, artificial orange, and I eat more than the recommended daily amount and spend way too much time coming up with justifications for consuming more.

Anyways, I'm headed back to town (Madang) and am really excited to have control over what I eat for 2 weeks.

And beer. I'm excited for cold beer.

(Ghost-poster's note: Joseph sent this post a few weeks back, but I only just received it. Sorry!)

So the other day I was told there's this forbidden pond in the forest, and so I asked a couple guys why. Their combined responses go like this:

"Well, it used to be OK until this one day this woman was fishing there and a big black snake went up her vagina, and its head came out her mouth and the two were buried together like that. Now the place is inhabited by wallaby-headed, pot-bellied, cassowary-legged dwarves who will eat you and only your bones will remain."

(Another guy insists they're just not very friendly and will only attack if provoked.)

I guess that means I'm not in Kansas anymore.