Brazil: 3 days in full colour - local style down the Amazon
Brazil: A 3 day boat ride took us from the border with Peru to Tefe, some 1100km further
Brazil: Trevor and Ellen were on their way to South Africa!
Brazil: We stopped next to countless villages to load and unload various types of cargo - bananas in this case
Brazil: Somewhere in the Amazon - no idea what the village was called
Brazil: Electrical entrepreneurs in the heart of the Amazon
Brazil: One of the tallest recorded trees in the Amazon
Brazil: On our way to the Mamiraua Reserve, deep in the Amazon
Brazil: We stayed for 4 wonderful nights at the Uakari Floating Village in Mamiraua Reserve
Brazil: We even had a deck and a swimming pool in the river, protected by nets
Brazil: A spacious comfortable room at the Uakari lodge
Brazil: Life is not easy
Brazil: During the flooded season, the whole reserve is basically under water
Brazil: A 10cm long caterpillar
Brazil: These big red fruits are fluffy on the inside and are used to stuff pillows
Brazil: A beautiful tree frog
Brazil: Giant wasps abound
Brazil: Endless number of canals and streams in the Mamiraua area
Brazil: We call this fish “luminous green eye ring fish”
Brazil: A place of conservation, ecotourism, community development and research
Brazil: We called this bird a “Spokie” bird because it reminds us of the way a certain friend fishes
Brazil: Our 1st sighting of the famous white bald uakari - a monkey endemic to Mamiraua
Brazil: This abundant fruit causes its cotton like spores to drift in the wind along the river
Brazil: The brown throated 3 toed sloth - seen here hanging upside down
Brazil: Late afternoon from the canoe
Brazil: Marcos and Ara in their canoe
Brazil: Returning the evening - Janine waiting to welcome her husband home
Brazil: Cucuru toad (I think...)
Brazil: Fresh and rather large jaguar footprint found during our night hike
Brazil: Teeny tiny little tree froggy!
Brazil: Closer interrogation
Brazil: Janine loves the extensive butress roots of these rain forest trees
Brazil: Butterfly seedling
Brazil: Sloth ball
Brazil: Fallen tree next to man with extensive anti-mosquito protective clothing
Brazil: Delicate fungus
Brazil: Uacari Blanco near the forest floor
Brazil: A white bald uakari close up - courtesy of wikimedia.org
Brazil: Another sloth - wide awake
Brazil: Rain forest muscles
Brazil: Fungus is one of the main ways the forest reclaims its foliage-locked nutrients
Brazil: Visiting one of the local communities
Brazil: A festive parrot
Brazil: the parrot's owner - Supergirl!
Brazil: This tiny community set up a special TV watching station in their village for watching the Brazil game
Brazil: This photo I stole quickly amidst the playing and the talking and the laughing and the living
Brazil: A beautiful life
Brazil: Our boat ride back from the local village - how lucky are we, ha?!
Brazil: Magical
Brazil: Our happy home
Brazil: Spear fishing during our fishing outing
Brazil: Our guide, Morais, takes the catch
Brazil: Dragonfly
Brazil: Egrets at sunset
Brazil: A rather large cayman - like a crocodile - this lake was teeming with hundreds of them!
Brazil: Our last outing - and the most spectacular
Brazil: A duck tree
Brazil: Lago Mamiraua
Brazil: Our last sunset
Brazil: Our host Otavio
Brazil: Orange sky
Brazil: Sun melting away in the Amazon
Brazil: Happy wife...
Brazil: ...Happy Life!
Brazil: Beams of sunset - the last light we would see in Mamiraua
