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Day 7 - Rainforest Walk & Ox Bow Lake Canoe 18th August 2015 |
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Part 1 - Tarantula, Tamarins & Stinky Birds
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Following yesterday's pre-dawn river journey, we had an easier start for a walk through the rainforest to an ox bow lake.
Goi pointing out a termite nest - you could both eat them and rub them onto your skin as a mosquito repellent - sometimes it's not an advantage being useful...
Bobby, our lead guide for the trip...
Please look
after this bear, thank-you... This tarantula species is the world's second
largest...
Saddleback Tamarin monkeys or possibly Dusky Titi Monkeys...
Leaping
between trees...
Not easy
to photograph these small dark monkeys as they rapidly moved about the
canopy...
The boardwalk to the
canoes on the lake...
Small trees in the swampy margin...
All aboard two canoes...
Eyes peeled - there was a sighting of an Anaconda on the previous trip...
The pond and air were still and the Sun was hot...
Palm tree - one of the main colonisers that will eventually return this
isolated ox bow lake to being solid ground, until the river meanders this
way again some time in the far distant future...
The other canoe
disappearing into the long grasses...
Hoatzin...
One of nature's
oddities; its chicks possess claws on their wings like more ancient birds...
Also known as 'Stink Birds' for their personal odour...
A Social Flycatcher not being social...
