This morning we visited the small community of Amazonas, on the Amazon River. The crossing from our ship to land was quite easy. Our ship was just a few feet away from land, so we just used a skiff as a bridge to walk in between us and the shore. Anchors here are useless, Delfin II just docks by literally running aground, and then secures by tying-up to a large tree.
Once ashore, we climbed a short steep staircase carved in the firm shoreline clay. Four people from the village where there (two women and two men) to help and make sure everything went smoothly.
The village Amazonas was evidently poor, but very friendly and well organized. A welcome comity of several people from the village waited for us. Through a network of cemented paths, we walked around it, and saw how these people make a living is such a remote part of the world. Shortly after visiting the school, that is typically the main building in town, we returned to the Delfin II, for lunch and to relocate to a different area of the river.
For the afternoon our speedy skiffs transported through narrow tributaries of the Amazon to Clavero Lake. At Clavero lake we slowed down to enjoy the views of the green lush forest and the sights of many of the creatures that live here, such as the large blue and yellow macaws flying overhead, active squirrel monkeys, and not active at all two-toed sloths.
On our return to the Delfin II, we enjoyed the beautiful scenery of the sun setting down behind the forest. A sky of dark blues, orange and yellows hues, distant storm clouds with intermittent lightning striking through them. Obviously it was raining somewhere else in the rainforest.
