into protected forest. No mining, no polution. Just so fresh and so clean, clean
Our first camp - Amatuck
Rock landscape in the middle of a rapids on the Potaro River
What our “trail” looked like - we pretty much blazed out own
Playing Mafia!
The Spider who ate his breakfast in front of us
David and his scorpion catch!
Jason and Abby taking pictures of the Caiman
The falls!
the crew
the gorge below the falls and the valley we hiked to get here
The guest house where I glass rained on me and cut my arm open
Kaieteur at dusk with moon and polarizing lense
the ledge we sat on most of the time we were at the falls (approx 10 m away)
a more stunning perspective
714 fott drop - A 10 second ride until you hit the water
I'm looking down 714 ft to the bottom of Kaieteur falls. I stood there for about 45 minutes just looking at the movement of the water plummeting. There was this falcon that kept coasting around on the thermals (about 10 ft from the falling water and 50 ft from the basin). She flapped her wings twice.
Waiting to leave from Georgetown
the red earth of the interior
untouched rain forest!
our minibus, taking us to Pamela where we will continue on boat and by foot with our guides
At Pamela
Adios civilization!
what mining has done to the Potaro River
mining camps
how we sleep
Matt (Abby's bro)
left to right: Captain (trail guide), Kurt (tour guide), and Trudy
Michelle and David
Derek
Jason, Matt, and Derek
A carpet of green
Trudy with the Canadians: Nareesa and Tom (Yay for “Eh”... dontcha know)
the canopy
the Potaro River
The NOTICE
The fungi
Our little detour to the other waterfall (slightly smaller)
The snake
David making a walking stick
The only bridge
23,400 cu ft/s of bone crushing nature
The famous golden frogs that live their entire life in that specific place on these giant Bromelliads
they are said to excrete an extremely potent toxin from their skin.
They only live as far as 100 ft. from the falls. No where else on planet Earth
Darrick, checking out the frogs
Scientists from U of Michigan are studying them
Not a golden frog, but just as small
other life
the size of our plane
A carpet of vegitation. One of the last (if not, last) places on this planet to be this pristine
The Potaro River
