Delicacies of the Forest

Bananas and Chocolate... sounds like a delightful combination. And it was. Probably not the combination you are expecting though. As we wound our way through crooked paths arched with deep greens, we came across some most fascinating creatures. Meet Banana Slug.



He looks like he has just slimely slid from Lewis Carroll's, Alice in Wonderland. As he creeps along, he leaves behind an enchanting track of silvery rainbow ooze.

Enter the Chocolate Tube. I almost missed it. But as I was lying on my belly on the wet ground, examining a particularly large slug, I saw it. Poking out it's tuberous tendrils, feasting on the dead and rotting things.


Everything is alive here. Everything! You can't look at anything without finding another world hidden somewhere among the dead branches or the undersides of the clovers. The very forest floor is breathing. There is a pulse running through the ground... up the trunks... it circulates like the spores of the fungi... spreads itself like the delicate lichens... creeping, turning, dipping, curling... through everything, through everywhere, through everyone.