quarta-feira, 15 de dezembro de 2010

more....

Sotalia fluviatilis - tucuxi

Samauma - a maior arvore da regiao

seca é assim, até araia vem pra respirar....

a "praia" das aves...

pau de sebo - dia das crianças

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nao podiam faltar...

esse é o cara...

comendo de boa...

sexta-feira, 29 de outubro de 2010

A deserved brake after every working day... LOL and usually our co-workers botos and tucuxis come to swim with us as well...

quinta-feira, 28 de outubro de 2010

ÝES! I'm alive!

For those of u wondering I am a live, haven't had the time to post anything, better yet, to  come to Tefe but and next month I'll have even less time, since it's capture trip.. but after that I'll have lots of news... It's late and I'm tired, but still have lots of things to sort out, so just cme to sa I'm alive. and post a pic maybe.. if the internet colaborates.... miss u all!
This is my house/office and all the rest is my backyard/workplace ;)
Part of my job: drive a boat! lol, not all the time but sometimes....

domingo, 12 de setembro de 2010

Life at Mamirauá

So Friday we went to do a census of the botos (river dolphins) on the intire reserve and this is what we found on the very end of it! Well.. we saw arounf 1000 caimans on the way (3 hour boat drive) and some other that we couldn´t see also... It´s dry season so the reserve lakes and rivers are really low, fish flying inside the boat, don´t even need to use a harpoon to catch them! lol
Oh yeah, the botos, don´t even have to say that they are awesome! Love them!!!
And I thought I had brought a pic of the floating house I´m living in but I guess I didn´t.. next time I come to Tefé (so called "civilization") I´ll post it here.. don´t have too much time to write right now so just gonna post soe pics and next time will write a little bit more! Miss u all!
Lunch time!!!

quinta-feira, 2 de setembro de 2010

life is definetely good

Just to say life is good! Have a baby anteater to feed right now so won't write much.. don't even have too right? :)

terça-feira, 31 de agosto de 2010

still here...

Went to Balbina last night to spend the night with my very good friend Karen, Paulinho and lots of animals...wish I had more time... 34C around midnight.... yeah, no kidding.... and the night before 30.... literally dehidrating...

Couldn't take any pictures yet... running all day long with documents, articles/books to read, lectures to watch, topics to discuss, baby anteaters to take care of!! Learn, learn, learn!! So far this experience is just confirming what I've always known... this is what I want for life... still have a long way to go, so no preciptations here....

segunda-feira, 30 de agosto de 2010

Arrival in Manaus

Ok, so I arrived at 00:45am today here in Manaus and went to a hostel spend the rest of my night/morning whatever.... IT IS FREAKING HOT AND HUMID HERE!!!! and this is not the rainy season... fun times, fun times....I think I slept a total of 3 hours tonight... ppl coming in and out of the room, no air conditioner on this room just a fan that I don't know if it was helping or making it worse.. but it's not as bad as described.. lol it's all good....

Now I'm at INPA filling out forms and getting to know the new ppl around here and I'll probably go to Tefé on Wednesday morning, and then the fun starts... as far as I know we're capturing around 70 animals (river dolphins) in November for samples, identification and everything else...sooo it's gonna be fun!

Gotta go now...

terça-feira, 24 de agosto de 2010



Ok.. so Pat gave me this idea and I think it will be easier to keep everyone'- who's interested - updated on how I'm handling the Amazon, or the other way around, lol......and I guess it's the easiest way to post pictures so everyone can see....


As everybody knows it won't have news every day or even every week but I'll do my best...


So for starter I'm putting the google maps link here to show that I wasn't kidding when I said I would be in the middle of the Amazon... aaannnddd actually I told everybody that it would be a 4 hours flight and 4h boat ride to the place I'm going.. but it's actually a 4 DAY boat ride to Mamirauá, the name of the reserve that I'm staying.. so yup! It seems further from home than Edmonton... lol...
This pic is from my first amazonic adventure in 2007, when I interned at the army zoo. That's not where I stayed atime, but if you look at the pic you'll see lots of trees and a small floating house on the bottom of the picture... it's going to be a little bit like that this time. :)