Bugs, spiders and bumps in the night

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Been in the jungle. There were:-

• armadillos - quite cute
  
• spiders - big and very scary, especially above my hammock
  
• dolphins - pink and grey
  
• piranhas -I caught one and it tasted very good which for someone who doesn't like fish is interesting
  
• crocodiles - the guide caught one but he wouldn't let us eat it
  
• brazil nuts - they really do come from Brazil
  
• quinine trees - very handy for the G & T
  
• lots of birds - macaus, ospreys, cormorants, humming birds, toucans, etc
  
• lots more plants and stuff I can't even start to name
  

Went to see a local village, tiny, all subsistence farming, pineapples and mangoes in the back garden.

It rained again, difficult to convey how much water appears here in such a short time, but it's way better than the showers we get, warmer and wetter.

It was also very, very dark which is very, very spooky when you keep hearing strange footsteps where there shouldn't be any. Apparently it was only a tapir, but the jaguars are always there in your imagination, not to mention canibals.....

... spider photos will have to wait as I haven't got them with me.

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Photos

Look what we caught
Piranha soup for dinner that night

Local housing
We dropped in for sugar cane juice and lime

Croc catching
That was a little one, I didn't get so close to the big ones

Transport local style
One for the paddlers

Sunset over the Amazon
Romantic, but for the bugs, crocs, piranhas and things that went bump

Comments

[mum]

Spiders
Dusted and hoovered behind the piano today and found more spiders there than I care to find!

[Zoe Parker]

Spiders
I woke up this morning and there was a huge house spider on my face!