Amazon Adventure Part 2

Trip Start Jan 20, 2004
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Trip End Feb 01, 2005


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Saturday, April 3, 2004

The second leg of my Amazon adventure started with having to hang my hammock on the īmulheresī or womens side of the boat. This was interesting, but also eased my mind at having sleazy old men near me.

The next 2 days disappeared into a canasta frenzy as Timo, Simon, Natalia, Chris and I spent whole days closely guarding our cards and watching for the next strategic move. In between the two games we managed to play I also got to see some dolphins swimming far off on the other shore. They werenīt doing big Flipper moves, but still, at least I saw some! I had been beginning to think that I was going to be unlucky in dolphin spotting for the entire trip.

The boat was interesting I had a family camped beside me. They were quite well off which I found at odds with the fact that the mother was 19 and had a 3 year old and a 10 month old, although the father was about 10 years older, so maybe thatīs why 01 Dolphin Spotting
01 Dolphin Spotting
 . They had so much baggage it was unbelievable. Unfortunately for me the girls were both sick and spewed their guts up. Once at the dinner table, then under my hammock while I was sitting on my backpack, splashing my feet in the process. I started to worry that I would leave the boat with a vomit covered backpack.

Mealtimes was always interesting. Unlike the first boat, this one had a permanent table running down the middle of the boat in between all the hammocks. We would be woken up at the very ungracious hour of 6:30am to be booted out of our hammocks so everyone else could enjoy their breakfast of stale bread roll and coffee flavoured sugar. The same happened for every meal and as soon as the big casserole dishes filled with rice, beans, spaghetti and some chunks of meat appeared on the table, it was stuff yourself silly time. No time for politeness, it was just dig in quick or miss out.

I was glad to get into Manaus and I hung over the side of the boat and watched the bright lights of Manaus appear, glittering against the stormy sky and black water. It was quite magical.

Things I learned
* Canasta is FUN (thanks Luke and Dru for getting me addicted!)
* The dolphins arenīt as pink as I thought
* Iīm so glad Iīm not married with children
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