During the cruise I went up to the front of the cabin to watch the river in front of us. The boat captain, a native Indian-looking guy was steering the craft and he ask me where I was from. In our conversation he asked if I had any Canadian coins he could look at, saying he was interested in foreign coins. I dug into my pack and showed them the coins I had, and just gave them to him. I was never sure if he was really that interested in coin collecting or just wanted to add to his income. Either way, it was okay with me.
Elin-Elin, the lodge where we stayed provided us with a nice room and serving up delicious food. Before we went to bed, Claudia one of the nature guides told us we should get up at 5:30 for a bird walk. She offered to wake us, but we told her we could wake ourselves, which we did, and we were ready to start at 6:00. Surprisingly by that time, Claudia still hadn’t made the rounds to wake the others, but I suspect it was because of the heavy morning rain that was falling. Fortunately the rain slowed, and it became very light by the time the group started off.
Bird and nature walks don’t worked well with big groups as they do when it is just my wife and I on our own. Big groups make a lot of noise and disturbance, and as a result we saw only a few birds, but were very happy to finally see one of those tiny orange, poison dart frogs. At one point on our trek, my wife stepped in some mud and sank up to her knee.
The group was back to our hotel by 8:00, in time for breakfast. It included: orange juice, toast, fruit slices, rice and beans, with eggs. During our breakfast, Claudia made some announcements to the group. The communications on the tour were pretty bad. It was very difficult to hear what Claudia says, and her announcements never seem to give all of the details we need to know, like the time of the activity and what exactly the activity is.
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