Advertisements It’s been ten months since my solo trip to the amazing country of Peru. My final thoughts of this adventure are of our last night on the Aqua with the crew, and then seeing the isolated town of Iquitos. We started our final evening learning how to make Pisco sour’s ( the official drinkContinue reading “ending in Iquitos”
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Sloths, clown frogs, & other forest creatures…
Advertisements In addition to the many species of monkey in the Amazon, we were privy to witness a host of other creatures as well.One of the most interesting animals to me was the sloth. A strange, childlike creature hanging in the branches along the river’s banks.You could actually see the moss growing on their backsContinue reading “Sloths, clown frogs, & other forest creatures…”
Trichechus inunguis
Advertisements One of only four species in the world, this manatee’s habitat ( trichechus inunguis) is restricted to the Amazonian basin. In the small, cutoff town of Iquitos, Peru lies the non profit, nongovernmental, fully run by volunteers organization, the Amazonian Manatee Rescue Center. Walking into the rescue center you can feel and see the needContinue reading “Trichechus inunguis”
The Phoenix Foundation
Advertisements Frackity Frack, there is no looking back… He feels the heavy weight of despair upon slumped shoulders. Gravity is slowly winning everyday. He realizes it isn’t so much the actual work he minds, but the triviality of the daily process. Get it together old man, only for a little while longer. The constant gnawing toContinue reading “The Phoenix Foundation”
Giant lillypads, double rainbows & and other ponderous musings…
Advertisements Have you caught the glint of a winter’s sun dancing on foreign waters, and felt old spirits in your soul? [the_ad id=”11882″]Have you looked upon the splendor of nature, and found tears flowing across your cheeks from the sheer beauty?Have you had the sweat of the day cooled down by a single black rainContinue reading “Giant lillypads, double rainbows & and other ponderous musings…”
A canoe…
Advertisements Beyond the shimmering sun along the water, I make out faint images gliding toward us. Local Amazonian people in dugout canoes. As they approach and encircle us, we are offered to go for a ride, providing we don’t mind rowing. A young boy, no more than ten years old, pulls up and I hopContinue reading “A canoe…”
Monkeys
Advertisements Howler. Red tail. Michael Jackson. ( the local name for the black & white colored ones) Fluffy. The names seemed as endless as the species before my eyes. Jungle sounds that would shake the trees, and my foundation. Kong’s beauty and appeal was apparent in the Amazon. I think about Darwin’s theory, and wonderContinue reading “Monkeys”
the Green Waters of Mother Earth
Advertisements The hairs on my arms stood at full attention as the skiff came toward us. Electricity was in the atmosphere, literally and figuratively, and my mind was charged with excitement. [the_ad id=”11882″]The boat motor roared to life up the tributary, the air rushing to the nostrils and filling my senses. As the channel narrowedContinue reading “the Green Waters of Mother Earth”
stick fishing
Advertisements Some of my earliest, happiest memories involve fishing. Sitting with my Mom and Pop along a lake shore as a child, biking with my best friends to a local pond during the long summer vacations as a kid, and more recently sitting solitary along a slow moving river just reading and enjoying nature.But I’dContinue reading “stick fishing”
Snakes
Advertisements “Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?” –Indiana Jones I knew when I planned my Amazonian adventure that the likelihood of facing my biggest fear, snakes, had a good chance of looking me right in the face. What surprised me was how I handled it. At the end of our morning excursion, we were toldContinue reading “Snakes”