Amazing Amazon

South America » Bolivia » Beni Department
July 11th 2011

Published: September 3rd 2011

Monday Late morning we take a very short flight over the mountains, still rugged but now thick with jungle and streams. As we near Santa Cruz the land begins to look very familiar...it's flat and green and tropical and at 450m, Santa Cruz itself is big and sprawling. The residents know they have plenty of land and have spread out on it. We joined the throngs in the streets and square, eating i... Read Full Entry

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a walk in the jungle

a sandbank and island at a bend in the river

huge sandbank

these birds flew at me when they weren't skimming the river

the cracks are deep and wide

after the floods

prints

the dark line around this puddle is tadpoles

where we had our mud bath

new life bursting forth

a dead chick?

When I accidently spotted this chick, I thought it was dead. I poked and prodded it. Still dead. Suddenly it leapt to it's feet and ran off on very long legs, chasing it's parent and being joined by another chick.