Well, Cosmo has been making himself very scarce this past summer. I didn’t see him at all onboard Andiamo during the week I was here between my Nicaragua/Costa Rica trip and my stateside/Europe trip. He’d been seen several times around the dock and coming off the boat just shortly before I got back. But I haven’t seen him once. I suspect he’s found a new happy place to call home that doesn’t involve being surrounded by water all the time.
Cosmo has always been the one most prone to wandering and hunting whenever he got the chance. I know he’s surviving just fine wherever he has decided to call home. On the boat, he’s always been a bit clumsy, and very untidy, thinking that the whole boat was his litter box. But on land, he’s in his element. He is a smooth, savvy hunter.
I will continue keeping my eyes open for him, and hope to at least get a glimpse of him now and then. But I’m coming to terms with the fact that he may have already chosen to become a permanent resident of the Rio Dulce, and the Andiamo and myself may be not much more than a memory. I’ll miss him, but I also know that he’ll be happier on land, and Andiamo will be MUCH cleaner, so it’s a win-win for everybody I think.
He’ll be missed though if he does decide to permanently stay away.