Day 10 - Amazon - June 19th

Today was a fun day. We started out the day with an early morning boat ride across the river to go bird watching. We saw macaws, vultures, and parakeets, king fishers, swallows and others. After breakfast we got back on the boats and went fishing for piranhas. I caught a catfish and almost caught a piranha. Josh ended up catching 6 piranhas. They were still pretty small, but Josh kept the biggest to be cooked up for him for lunch. 2 other people on the boat gave Josh their piranha, so he had 3 to eat at lunch. On our way back to the resort, we saw several pink dolphins. Unfortunately, they don’t jump so we would mainly see their snouts and tops of their backs when they came up for air. We ate lunch an hour or so later and they served Josh his piranha. He like it. They are very bony fish so it took him awhile to eat it. He ate 2 of them. We took an hour nap after lunch, then want back down to the boats. This time we went to visit a local tribe on the Amazon called the Yagua trive. They took us under their big huts and danced for us, and showed us how to use the blow darts and let those who wanted to try it. Josh did it a couple of times. We got to hold their bird and sloth, which was my favorite part. He was so cute and loved to cuddle. We stayed in the lodge when we got back for an hour and had some pina coladas, popcorn and I read while Josh played games on my phone. The sun goes down and is completely dark by 6:00 pm. We left at 6:30 for a night jungle walk, which was terrifying! We saw so many huge, freaky spiders, like Brazilian wandering spiders and tarantulas, plus snakes, caiman, frogs and scorpions. We were walking across a narrow bridge and on the handrail was a huge hairy pink toed tarantula. It was probably 8 inches in diameter, completely covering and wrapped around the top of the handrail. It is a single file bridge and there was nowhere to go except by it. I was freaking out a little, and grabbled the shirt of the guy behind me and told him I couldn’t do it. Everyone was trying to coax me forward, because I was holding up the group. When the spider moved to the back side of the rail, I quickly went by. On the other side of the bridge I was still freaked out over the tarantula and a black cat brushes up against my leg. I jumped and screamed. It was a scary night! Needless to say, Josh LOVED it.