This morning we could not believe the amount of debris that was coming down the river. There were huge trees, floating pieces of sod as large as tennis courts and all kinds of other stuff. One passenger told us he saw a dead cow floating by. This is the rainy season and there is a lot of flooding, we have seen houses built on stilts completely surrounded by water and we saw some where only the roof was out of the water.
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| This beetle was on the deck this morning, it was about 6 inches long |
The village we visited is on a tributary, the Rio Tapajos, it is amazing that a cruise ship can go up a tributary of the Amazon. We passed one town, Santarem, that has a population of 300,000. It is at the mouth of the Rio Tapajos where it joins the amazon and we will visit there in five days.
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The clear water of the Rio Tapajos meeting the Amazon
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The area where we were to dock was quite flooded with trees sticking out of the water and there was a sandbar so we could not get the tender up to the dock when fully loaded. The solution was to tie an empty tender to the dock and then the loaded tender tied off to it and we unloaded by walking through the other tender onto the dock.
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| The two tenders at the dock |
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| Thatched roof pavilions that are under water |
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