I have to admit, during our days in the jungle home base was such a nice lodge that it was hardly the wild side . . . until you looked out into the courtyard and saw macaws in the trees or gigantic grasshoppers on the window screens. The variety and sheer volume of the plants all around was amazing. One of the highlights, though, was a big beautiful skyful of stars - the very first night, our guide took us out on the river to go star-gazing. Some of the constellations were familiar, like the Big Dipper, but most of them were completely new. Just moments after everyone had managed to quiet down and focus on the sky, we were rewarded with one of the brightest shooting stars I've ever seen. And, when my neck got tired of looking up, there were those same stars relfected in the water below - magical!
Oh yeah, and we saw caimans and monkeys and tarantulas and turtles too. Though of course, because we went fishing, the only fish we saw was a tiny little one not big enough to fit on the hook. But somehow, I was okay with that.
I'm sure there will be more on the jungle later . . . for the moment, I'm off to get breakfast!
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New constellations! Did you learn the Southern Cross?
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All together now!
We did see the Southern Cross! In fact that and the Big Dipper were really the only ones we could identify for sure. The Milky Way was really pretty though, too.
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