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Fourth Day in Amazon

Again we got up for an early morning boat game viewing. This one proved less fruitful but it was still great to be out and hear the sounds of the forest.

After breakfast we went for a very long bush walk. We went on quite an adventurous route that had no definite path. Elso used his machete to notch the trees for us to find our way back. Good thing he did that. Even with my 'superior' sense of direction I got lost after the first hour and couldn't discern which way was the direct route to camp (something I can usually do).

About halfway through the walk we came across a snake. The irony is we had just been chatting about snakes. Elso then continued to bash the diving daylights out of the serpent with a very long sapling he hacked down with his machete (good tool. I'm gonna get one for me.). This was to avoid being bitten by the snake. From three meters away. Right boet, I want to see a 60 cm snake strike three meters! Damn that Murphy dude.

We were also quite lucky to see white faced squirrel monkeys. Apparently they are quite rare. And we also saw some trees, a few more trees and yet some more trees. You get the picture.

This evening while a most delicious roast chicken dinner was being prepared a few of us had quite an intense debate against Mianne about "human existence and competition". Or something to that effect. All I know is we were right and she was wrong. Simply from sheer numbers we were right!

This night I got eaten alive. I couldn't spend two minutes outside without getting at least a million bites. Even in my mozi/jaguar proof hammock effort I was eaten (by the mozis, not a jaguar).