Morning Canoe trips M/Y Tucano

Here are some of our favorite photos from the early morning motor launches. When something was spotted they cut the motor off and paddled not to scare the wildlife and for us to experience the peace and quite with only the sound of birds.

 Our first morning trip

 the reflections were stunning

 it's hard to tell where the real and the reflection start and end

 

 Squirrel Monkey

 we tasted the fruit

 M/Y Tucano

 Yellow-rumped Cacique nests

 

 White-fronted Toucans

 Olive-sided Oropendola

butterfly on the boat

 

The next morning we chose to go out in the kayaks.

 

 Edi, Rob, Andrea, Betsy

 

 Hoatzin on nest with 2 chicks

Hoatzin chick (photo from Rob)

 Red Howler Monkey

 my toes

Betsy and Andrea 

 Day 4 provided a beautiful sunrise

 wasp nest

 Red Howler Monkeys

 Ringed Kingfisher

 

Our 5th morning took us to visit a village where they grow and process manioc.

 

 another pretty sunrise

 riding to the village

 hand sawed wood

 manioc

 Souza and Edi demonstrate how manioc is planted

 pretty flowers in their village

 Souza demonstrates the processing of manioc

 inside one of the houses

 Klaske talking to one of the young ladies

 

 class room

 outhouse for the head of the village

 

 

There were quite a few pretty birds seen in the trees around the village:

 

Yellow-headed Caracara



 Yellow-rumped Cacique

 Festive Parrot

 going back to the Tucano for breakfast

 Great reflection of Tucano

 

Our 6th day explored the other side of the Rio Negro and offered some different scenery.

 

many different things use the holes for nesting

Parrots high overhead

 

 

On our 7th morning we explored the Lago Janauari Ecological Park where the brown water of the Amazon flows swiftly though the forest. We noticed more and different wildlife in this section, as well as more mosquitos...that don't breed on the Rio Negro, but do on the Amazon.

 

another beautiful sunrise

Striated Heron



Black-collared Hawk

there was quite a bit of debris of logs and such

we were supposed to go through this area, but had to turn around and go out on the Amazon to return

Great Black Hawks

Snowy Egret

immature Wattled Jacana

immature Wattled Jacana

Ani

 Wattled Jacana

 dragonfly on our canoe

cute bug on Tucano

 

 

The next post will be the late morning excursions. Mostly forest walks, a visit to another village and the visit to the Lago Janauari Ecological Park on the last day.