Waiting to be picked up from El Dorado Inn.
The Group!
2 hours to Linden on the Linden Highway
6 hours on the Mabura Hill Road
Lunch at "58 Miles"
My attempt at capturing the poor road condition...
View somewhere along the way.
Stopping to cross the Essequibo River
Hanging out waiting for the ferry
Bigs - the minibus driver
Ants carrying a dead fly
Getting on the ferry
Tom and the Essequibo River
The Essequibo River
After crossing the river we got into 4x4s at Mahdia for the drive to Pamela Landing.
Very bumpy!
Frank - the one and only time we saw our "tour guide"
Yes, it was hot.
Arrival at Pamela Landing on the Potaro River
Loading up the boat to take all 10 of us plus our guides up the Potaro.
The water adn the sand were amazing!
Dinner time! Cabbage and rice for Nareesa. Tom got some fish.
Tom preparing for his first night in a hammock
Breakfast at camp Amatuk
Going for a little hike around the community
A stop at the general store
Clearing land for casava farming (I think).
Abi and Jason in the "natural whirlpool"
Carrying our stuff to the boat
Ready to head back out on the Potaro
The dog trying to come with us - Scrappy! Was that his name??
Off for a hike along the Potaro for a change of scenery
Our guides
Mmmmm - pineapple and bread for lunch.
Trudy having some quiet time
Off to find our next campsite
Playing to pass the time - what was the name of the game?
Checking out the spider the next morning at Waratuk Fall Guest House
We slept in hammocks slung at the bottom of the guest house
Cashew fruit, Trudy and Nareesa
David taking the tail off a scorpion
Getting pictures of the Caiman under the rocks.
Our attempt at Caiman picture
Back on the Potato heading for Tukiet
A little more hiking today.
Heading up Rock Stone Falls
AKA Six Mouth Falls
Spot the frog
Snake that came out of the rocks after it rained
I think it looks like a little labarier!
Tukiet Campsite
Time for the big hike to the top of Kaieteur Falls
Yes, that is sweat soaking through Tom's shorts
Amerindian woman carrying her grandson on her back up the same trail
And doing it in Flip Flops!
"Oh My god!"
Rest stop. Of course this is the day the bottled water ran out!
Nearing the falls.
Johnson's view
The whole group
A long way down
A Hawk soaring around
Boyscout view
Rainbow view
Birds gathering above the falls before sunset...
And then the birds dive down and behind the falls for the night. Amazing to watch!
Our hammock set-up at the Kaieteur guest house
Guest house
Chris recharging after his near death experience ;)
Kaieteur in the morning
741 feet down!
My healing caterpiller/fire rope burn
this is why it's called Rainbow View
Waiting at the airstrip for our flight back to Georgetown
