Because We Can

Our little home place. Actually it is one fourth of this hut on the back in the opposite corner. It does have a bed for each of us, a bathroom and electric 24 hours a day. The Hilton it is not, but for us and where we are it is grand. Our spider had already repair its web and was waiting for its next meal. And yes, that is a zinnia he has built his web on. Oh dear! Where has all the water gone, gone to the Amazon, drop by drop. The Napo River depends on rainfall. A few days before we arrived it had rained upstream. Since then, no rain. What was river was now mud flat. The things we learn. Morning coffee to start this long day. And not only was it a long jam packed day, between Linda and I we took 998 photos. Plus I don’t know how much video as I haven’t the time to find out. Suffice it to say things we did are going to be left out big time from today’s blog. I have taken so many photos of people taking off and putting on shoes that I could…. Forget it Bob, don’t go t...

Morning on the Napo River. We never would have thought. Such a big world, so little time to see it. It’s a parrot lick. A clay bank along the river. The parrots need high sodium clay to  counteract the toxicity of the plants and roots they eat. We were viewing this from our canoe on the river. Here’s what it looked like from the canoe. If the photo isn’t all that clear, now you know why. Most people on the canoe never ever saw the parrots, Linda included. I could see them through my binoculars and also though my camera with the 300mm lens on it. The photo was cropped down and sharpened from the original image. It’s amazing the image stabilization of the camera worked as well as it did considering how much the canoe was bobbing around in the river. Everywhere we looked there was something that caught our eye. We took over 880 photos today, plus over 20 videos of varying lengths. The earlier one was split out of a much longer video that included everyone in the group...