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| a happy bunch after waking up in the Amazon rain forrest. |
It’s the start of day 3 in the Amazon! We woke up bright and early at sunrise in the Amazon rainforest. After disassembling our hammocks, we headed back to the boat, where we were met by the same amazing breakfast we had had the morning before. While we were eating breakfast, we cruised to a floating dock on the Rio Negro that was surrounded by dolphins. All of us jumped in and swam with them. Forget Discovery Cove, people. The Amazon is where it’s at. It was amazing. If you held fish over your head, slapped it down in the water once, the dolphins would bolt right up from behind you and jump up to get it! Crazy!
That afternoon, we had lunch on the boat and took off for the area we would be anchoring for the night, which was on the way back to Manaus. We took small motorboats out to go piranha fishing. Now, in theory, this sounds pretty cool. In practice, not so much. Mid-fishing, a huge storm hit and we had yet to catch any fish. I was on my second to last pair of clean clothes though and was not about to let them get all wet in the rain without having a fish to show for it! So, when a couple of people decided to go back to the main boat, I stayed firm and stuck it out. Unfortunately though, the second half of our excursion did not yield any fish either. I was only slightly confused/disappointed/shocked when Anand G reached in the water as we were finally heading back to the boat and simply picked out a piranha, after we had been standing with our poles in the freezing rain for almost 3 hours and caught nothing! We returned back to the main boat just to pick up a couple more people and then go caiman spotting.
That afternoon, we had lunch on the boat and took off for the area we would be anchoring for the night, which was on the way back to Manaus. We took small motorboats out to go piranha fishing. Now, in theory, this sounds pretty cool. In practice, not so much. Mid-fishing, a huge storm hit and we had yet to catch any fish. I was on my second to last pair of clean clothes though and was not about to let them get all wet in the rain without having a fish to show for it! So, when a couple of people decided to go back to the main boat, I stayed firm and stuck it out. Unfortunately though, the second half of our excursion did not yield any fish either. I was only slightly confused/disappointed/shocked when Anand G reached in the water as we were finally heading back to the boat and simply picked out a piranha, after we had been standing with our poles in the freezing rain for almost 3 hours and caught nothing! We returned back to the main boat just to pick up a couple more people and then go caiman spotting.
Caimen are a subspecies of alligator. Anand G could spot them so easily in the dark just by shining a flashing in the mangroves and seeing the light reflected from their eyes. After catching a few baby caimens to bring back to the boat to fry up (J.K. just to show people, but I wouldn’t hold it past 'em) we had dinner and settled into our hammocks for the night. By that point, I was exhausted and collapsed into my hammock the second I saw it!
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| me, in my hammock on the boat. |
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