We took the long boats down the river with our guide Rodrego. There are 6 in our group, a girl 26 from Lithuania,a girl 26 from China and a couple from Argentina. Jorge from Argentina brought some very expensive photography equipment. He has sold several of his pictures to National Geographic. The images he got were incredible. On the ride we saw some fascinating wild life. Lots of turtles, a few alligators, three night monkeys ( I always wanted a monkey BNL) that were resting in the hollow of a large tree. They looked like Eewalks. There were several different species of birds.The most amazing site was a pair of fresh water dolphins that were swimming around a very small section if the river. They were a beautiful color blue and very graceful in this river that is no wider than the North River in Pembroke and really really muddy water. It s amazing that this breed of dolphin has adapted to the murky fresh water. We visited a small village where Rodrego cut up branches from a tree that was the relative of poison ivy. The village woman took the branches and stroked them over his back. You do this to any area on ones body that ails them. Rodgerio's back swelled up with welts like bee stings. The village woman used the branches to stroke AL's knees. In a few short minutes the woman was complaining of the pain in her arm that had travelled up from AL's knees. There was a slight burning sensation for about 20 minutes. I did not have it done to me.........Why would I ? Take two aspirins.
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