Yesterday and this morning (2/25) we are cruising down the
Amazon. We will be at a port at 3PM this afternoon (I think we are three hours
behind eastern time). The Amazon is the second largest river system in the
world behind the Nile. And, if you know what the Mississippi looks like in Louisiana,
it looks very similar. It is very wide and very muddy, with lots of debris from
the shore and the bottom. We are here during the high water season, and the
water can vary 40-60 feet between the high water season and the low water
season. You will notice that the houses are on stilts.
When we left Belem we were in part of the Amazon River
system, but instead of continuing down (assuming it was not deep enough) we
went back out to the Atlantic and blue water. Yesterday morning when we got up
we were still over 100 miles out to see, but the Amazon reached that far and
you can see the two waters meeting.
The Amazon is not like the Antarctic, where every time you
turn around you see something different, or different animals. There are many
birds and lots of logs that you can make into interesting items, but the
scenery is very similar as you go down. Here is a very pretty bird we kept
seeing and one of the infamous wood sharks.
And here is a little of what we are seeing as we sail down
the river.
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