Navidad en el Delfin

Este año, recibiremos las navidades navegando, generalmente no navegamos porque consideramos que estas fiestas son fiestas familiares y todos deberían estar en sus casas pero por una coyuntura especial y con aprobación de toda la tripulación, decidimos abrir esta fecha para satisfacer pedidos especiales de huéspedes que viajando en familia, querían recibir esta fecha en el Amazonas.

Gracias a la sensibilidad de algunos de nuestros pasajeros, esta navidad vamos a poder tener la suerte de repartir más de 100 juguetes en la comunidad de Atun Poza y Yucuruchi (lugares que siempre visitamos y apoyamos) y 300 polos de piqué.
Hemos decidido hacerlo en estas dos comunidades por ser mas pequeñas, las otras dos comunidades que visitamos son grandes, así que no nos alcanzarían los regalitos. Esperamos el otro año, poder lograr hacerlo y poder satisfacer a todos los niños pequeños que viven en estas.

Estas comunidades, son alejadas, generalmente ayuda no llega a estos lugares tan remotos, aun así, los niños son niños felices, siempre se te acercan con una ingenuidad y sinceridad que la muestran en la grande sonrisa con que te reciben. Ellos están felices y a pesar de sus grandes carencias, son niños felices, tienen lo mas importante, su familia y alimento.
El río provee para todos, todos los días, desde temprano sus padres salen a pescar y recolectar frutos de la selva o de las pequeñas parcelas donde cosechan frutas y frutos de palmeras ricos en carbohidratos. El Amazonas provee para sus habitantes, bendiciéndolos con un río rico en peces y zonas ribereñas donde florecen muchos frutos comestibles. Las familias son numerosas, mínimo 8 niños así que algo que hay es niños que siempre salen en tu búsqueda y te regalan una sonrisa llena de cariño y simpatía. Nos gustaría tanto poder regalar a todos ellos estas navidades, pero bueno poco a poco se va avanzando.

Felices fiestas a todos!

Delfin Amazon Cruises

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Saving a Anhinga

It was late afternoon; we were at the mouth of the Dorado River, this dry season is presenting itself early, the river has been receding rapidly so I think this excursion by boat through the waterways will be the last of the wet season. We went through a very narrow stream of shallow waters, we got stuck, so Roque our captain had to jump into the water and push us out while we bounced from one side to the other to help get the boat out.

Finally we got out, and started to cruise up river, the water was almost green with lots of algae which has grown because at this time there is less oxygen in the water. We met up with a troop of squirrel monkeys, they were a large group, actually they ware also accompanied by white capuchin monkeys mixed with the troop. They sometimes travel together; it’s common to see these two species together. We were very concentrated watching this loud group jumping from one tree to another.

Suddenly on the other side of the river we saw an anhinga, it was a male, black with long straight bill and very long slender neck and silvery patches on the upper wing. He was standing very still on a dead tree trunk protruding out of the water; looking intently down at the water very close to the trunk of the tree. Roque told our guide that there must be something in the water; first they thought it might be a caiman, so we approached but as we got closer the anhinga flew away.

Our guide Adonay saw that there was a bird under the water, the only thing that could be seen was a wing with the feathers all spread out. We got very close to see what was going on…..it was also an anhinga; we thought it was diving to catch fish.

About a small anteater (Part II)

March 2009

It’s amazing how times flies, it´s been almost two month since the little princess got here, she is growing, getting stronger and hopefully feeling better, she must have miss her mother a lot, must have not understand nothing at all, but at least she is fine, she is well fed and comfortable…!

She sleeps in a nice and soft cushion, at first she grap Rambo´s blanket and hold on to it. She sleeps like a small ball, all curved and with its long tail she hides her face, I think she likes it to be very dark when she sleeps, she doesn´t like the light when she sleeps… When I wake her up she opens her small eyes and looks at me…!