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Sunday morning - loading up the bus to go to the boat.	Now the boat is loaded, it's time to head down-river.	A boat about the same size as ours.	Boats along the riverbank, Iquitos
After an hour or so, the settlements drop away, and the banks are lined with forest.	After an hour or so, we stopped at a rum mill to give our butts a break. Cesar demonstrates the yoke arm of the sugar cane press.	Sugar cane run through the mill.	Cane juice kettle.
Boilers for distilling the rum.	At the rum mill, these large lily pads.	Victoria amazonica or related species	Water Buffalo
Water Buffalo in ambush mode.	Unfortunately I had no baby on hand for that classic shot.	Bromeliads go up, up, up on a tree trunk.	Bad shot of a metallic tortoise beetle (subfamily Cassidinae).
Bromeliad array.	It's bromeliads all the way up, and turtles all the way down.	Tennessee boasts no finer facilities for the making of fire water.	Time to taste a few firewaters!
Jim, Travis and Doug enjoy the show.	Time to get back on the boat!	Back on the boat and looking back at where we've been.	taking a short-cut through some flooded forest.
Floating vegetation in part of the shortcut.	Jicanas are out on the floating plants.	Getting close to the Rio Orosa.	A male Bridled Forest Gecko (Gonatodes humeralis)
Gonatodes humeralis close-up.	Large-Scaled Forest Lizard (Alopoglossus angulatus)	Poor shot of a juvenile Black-Striped Forest Lizard (Cercosaura ocellata bassleri)	Found on the ground outside the Swingin' Bachelor Pad - Variable Clown Treefrog (Dendropsophus triangulum)
Tail-less Whip Scorpion	Large spider (Phoenutria feria) hanging under a leaf.	Yellow-Toed Treefrog (Dendropsophus microdermis)	Bursting seed pods on the side of a tree.
Marbled Rain Frog (Pristimantis ventrimarmoratus) on a leaf. No common name that I could find, so I made one up.	Pristimantis ventrimarmoratus	Forest flatworm.	Forest flatworm.
Interesting katydid.	Giant katydid.	Sleeping Common Forest Anole (Anolis trachyderma)	Tiger beetles sleeping in formation.
Giant land snail. The shell on this one was about the size of my fist.	Closer, closer....	Unidentified lepidoptera.	Pristimantis sp.
Glossy Forest Racer (Drymoluber dichrous) sleeping in the forest.	this snake was about head-high in a small tree.	Unidentified tree rat.	A gerbil-sized snake-snack.

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