After spending the night in Diego Suarez, Shielo and our driver Bertrand drove us south to Montagne de Ambre, to hike into the national park there. Shielo spotted this blue nosed chameleon in a tree, as we were driving. The mountain is the remains of an old volcano, now covered in rain forest. We were hiking towards the larger crater lake in the area. As we walked, we saw our first lemurs—Sanford’s brown—and were delighted. They were on the move, and we didn’t get any pictures, but we also didn’t miss seeing them by scrambling for our cameras, which we took as a hard-learned victory.
