Amazon Rainforest Adventure Day 2
Trip Start
Sep 14, 2009
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Trip End
Dec 22, 2009
Amazon River, State of Amazonas, Brazil
Friday, September 25, 2009
Without the motor, you got a real sense of how peaceful and quite the jungle is during the day compared to when it comes alive at night. The gentle paddling also allowed us to see some more species of bird, and Ceciliano to show us how the locals go about catching their fish. He set up a long net across the breadth of the canal, at the start of the canoeing, which had a about 6 fish trapped in it when we came back, and also showed us some spear fishing. At one point he stood up on the front of the canoe, nearly tipping it, and fired a spear from a bow, and managed to spear a large catfish... needless to say we ate well at lunch!
Following our morning activities and lunch, we packed up camp and headed off by the motorised canoe, deeper into the river system, to a more remote part of the jungle. Once our guides had found somewhere suitable looking we set up camp. After an hour or so we had our hammocks up, covered by mosquito nets, under a palm leaf roof! We ate dinner at dusk surrounded by mosquitos, and headed straight to bed after at only 7pm, after seeing what might have been quite a dangerous snake when we were brushing our teeth!
Once we were in our hammocks, Herman told us some folk stories about the jungle to pass the time, but I think we were both content just listening to the sounds of the rainforest, which comes alive at night. The loudest things were the many types of frogs and the screaming of howler monkeys. A number of times we heard some loud rustling noises close to the camp and our guides got up a few times to investigate, but we survived the night, in part due to Ceciliano's loud snoring probably scaring the animals away!
