Next morning was foggy and damp. Our wake up call was 6 am for an early morning excursion.

We had spent the night tied up at the Sto. Domingo Ranger Station. The sight of the antennae sent me running for my cell phone to see if I could pick up a GPRS connection to the net to get online and see the primary results. I could not. We asked our guide about the primary results. He wanted to know who the Republican was - Hilary or Obama. He could not see why we would have an election fought between two members of the same party, extended over several months. Good question!

We set out along the Rio Yanayacu de Pucate for a picnic breakfast. There is somthing worth seeing in there, but I had no idea what it was.

Aha - a bird (Ani?)

Yellow Bird

Breakfast on the river

Toucan

Bats

Eagle

Back to the ranger station for lunch

Our crew played an impromptu game of football with the local villagers while the more waterborne of our group went for a swim in the river

Our daily schedule briefing

The sky was spectacular, and ever changing

We repaired to our room for a quick nap, exhausted from the death match followed by the early morning excursion

When we awoke, we had missed much of the visit to the boat by a local family

And the rains started. We had been very lucky to have stayed dry so far