Alone again...at last!

Group shot with Wendy, Georgia, Conrad, Ross, Nigel, and Maddy

Our guide walks in one side of the tree...

...and emerges from the other side...

...with a bat!!!!!!!!!!

Now he teases us with a poisonous frog

I think it's time to head on down to the skiff

We have almost safely "escaped"...but one more category of living creatures to encounter:

Local entrepreneurs lie in wait.  They're hard to REsist because they SUBsist on selling their wares

John and Conrad toast our safe escape

John rests on the upper deck exhausted from his encounter with the tarantula

The area is as delightful in the day time as it is at night. 

The bar at the other end of the upper deck

The prelude to yet another world class meal, this time for lunch

Here's their neighborhood to play in

We head out on the Yanayacu Pucate River, first to kayak,

Then a swim in the Amazon(a)!!!