From Coca down the Napo River

 

Each time you see us in a boat we were in it for 2 - 3 hours usually in the jungle or on the Napo river.  

We saw monkeys playing in trees.  We saw a Boa Constrictor wold high in a tree waiting for the parrots 

to arrive when one would accidentally land on it thinking it was a branch.  We only saw te parrots from 

a distance as they were still wary .

 

 

Although there were only 4 of us, this is the boat that took us down the Napo River.  a 2 hour ride.

 

                                                    Lunch - sandwich wrapped in banana leaf

A blessing and a curse as oil takes over the rainforest.  It is raising the standard of living but at a high cost.  This area is the lungs of the world

                                                                      

                                                                   Yes it was windy!

 It was mostly open river about a mile wide but with many sandbars causing the captain to hug one side and then the other.

                        The river is very muddy because the banks are mud and in the rainy season more and more feeds into the river

                                                   The Kichwa people live along the river

We left the motor canoe here and began our walk to the small river to take us to Sani lodge