Jungle Boat Ride and Piranha Fishing Day 10 Peru
Three toed sloths, Bats, Owl Monkeys, Squirrel Monkeys, Pink dolphins, and piranhas.
Breakfast today is at 7:30 am so of course we're up at 5:30 am. We can smell the bacon cooking and the coffee brewing. Our tummies are growling.
We start the day with a boat ride into the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve. We're near the Nauta/Cano area of the reserve.
Motoring up the the ranger station we see at least three three-toed sloths! One is balled-up sleeping.
As we make our way upstream we see a tree with some bumps on it. The bumps are actually long nose bats.
Hulber spots a couple of owl monkeys in a hollowed out tree. They are really hard to see.
We spot some monkey following birds and next we see movement in the trees. It's a troop of squirrel monkeys. They hear our boat and chatter and begin to scatter.
We're even lucky to see a few gray and pink dolphins but they are really hard to photograph.
Back to La Perla and we are treated to a slide show about the Amazon River Basin. The basin is about the size of North American and is located in nine countries. The river has about 1100 tributaries and has 11x the volume of the Mississippi River.
We have a lovely lunch and siesta and at 4 pm load up the skiffs to go fishing. We'll be fishing for piranha.
Quick shower, a movie about the Amazon and dinner: chicken italiano, fish rice and a peach/pineapple jello mold for dessert.
And we're back on the skiffs for another night boat ride at 8:15 pm. We don't see much but the night sounds are amazing. We're in bed by 10 pm. And our laundry was done while we were out exploring. (Wish we had known before we left Vermont-I would have packed WAY less clothes!)