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| Sunset our first night on board the Ayapuya, still on the Maranon River. |
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| Flooded forest on the Samaria, with a high flood mark from earlier in the year. |
In the late afternoon, we are finally at our spot on the Samaria River, in the middle of the flooded forest. Every year from December to April there is a lot of rain in the Andes Mountains, which runs down from the peaks into many rivers into the Amazon Rainforest. There is so much rain that the water rises over the riverbanks and floods the land round, creating the flooded forest habitat. This is one of the best places in the world to study animals, and our research starts tomorrow!
It is a great feeling to be out of touch without cellphones, email or internet for several days. We are in one of the wildest areas in the world, and the amount of wildlife is amazing. We will be counting several species each day, including macaws, caimans, river dolphins, and monkeys.
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