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August 28 - Amazon day 1
Photographer: Josh Eckels
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Pool at the hotel
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Hotel Casa Morey lobby
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Up on stilts
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Waiting to board the boat to the lodge
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Leaving the dock
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Al Frio y al Fuego - the restaurant from last night
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Shipyard at the north end of Iquitos
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Logging operation
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Wearing the vest while we're close to town
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Getting out of the city
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Banana boat
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Typical river transport
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Layover spot
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Muyuna Lodge boat
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Gray river dolphin sighted
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Muddy water and silty banks
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Passing another village
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Aquatic weeds in the slow-moving water
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After the transfer to the small boats
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Shallow wooden boat
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Vulture overhead
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Moises, our guide for the week, up front
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Up on the bow
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Arriving at the lodge
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Dock
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Welcome to Muyuna
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Our cabin
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Settling in
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Testing the hammock on the porch
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Raised and covered walkways
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In the wet season, only a few feet above the waterline
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Spikey tree
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Into the jungle on an afternoon hike
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Tree rat
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Pieridae butterfly
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Dusky titi monkey, looking a bit cross
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Still pretty cranky
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Popular with a few kinds of monkey
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Another tree rat peeking out
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Grasshopper on a nibbled giant leaf
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Pygmy marmoset saying hello
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Stretching out
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Checking out the big smelly humans
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Scampering around the trunk
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A little grooming
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Who's there?
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Caterpillar
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Trees get big here
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Rubber tree, bearing marks from 100+ years ago
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A trickle of rubber sap
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Our first three-toed sloth sighting!
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Beetle and white mushrooms
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Slowly moving up
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Moving like a sloth
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Heading out on our sunset cruise
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Silhoutted sloth
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A male and a female
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Late afternoon glow
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Three minutes to sunset
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A few whispy clouds
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Resting on the canopy
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Bye bye sun
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A small caiman
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On the boat to say hello
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Capybara on the river bank
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