The local school bus picks up a few kids whose house is also tied to the trees.
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Monthly Archives: May 2012
A typical night tied to the crown of a tree… or as Carlos first observed: “we managed to hit a tree in the middle of the river”. This is how deep the river is….. we are literally tied to the top of the tree for the night.
Our first sight of the Tucano and our canoes…. as we begin to load from the flooded boat dock.
Our cozy cabin right behind the captain’s wheelhouse and right in front of the sun deck
The boatyard in a tiny village upstream where the Tucano was built and how it was built… and could no longer be built because a ban on small-scale logging has wiped out building boats of the Tucano size. Meanwhile, international corporations log the equivalent of one football-sized rainforest every hour. Power and money. Retaining the small, village based, boat building business would produce more local jobs with less timber cutting but these people have no power and even less money.
A video of a daily thunderstorm….. at 45 seconds lightning struck so close on the left that the sound shockwave shook the camera.
A video. Full moon, night sounds, and occasional light from our canoe in the rainforest.
The Lost City of Z? Being retaken by the rainforest…….
The rich man’s grave deep in the rainforest.
The poor man’s grave in the rainforest.
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