The Crew, The Food, The Wildlife....

So this is the crew. Obviously the crew of friends that came together from far away places to have an adventure in the Amazon. The boat crew consisted of the captain (Vaudinho):

the cook (Cristavo, his name is written conveniently on his arm in case you forget):

and this is our fearless leader and guide: Ananji

The food was excellent, which was surprising to us.

On the boat we ate fresh fish almost every day.

and here's a photo of my favorite food item: Tapioca!

in Manaus, we went to a juicebar and tried lots of different type of juice. The best Acai and Cupuaçu.

The worst: Jeripapao (gross!)

after the eating and adventures for the day we did a lot of relaxing and soaking up the atmosphere......

we enjoyed many a lovely sunset......

and saw many a wild animal....

a wooly monkey? but not a spider monkey....and I'm pretty sure this wasn't a howler monkey....sigh....you know me with non-ocean animals....

ok so I know this blog is entitled the crew, the food and the wildlife. and I apologize for the lack of more wildlife pictures. but we saw lots of spiders, and forgive me but I hate looking at those photos so they are not included.....we saw lots of birds but sadly I can't tell you what any of them are.....and we saw lots of pink dolphins....but we never got a really good photo of one..... but we stopped in this one place and the water was so still and so calm, the trees were reflected perfectly in the water. it was amazing.