Time to wrap up our trip to the Orinoco. Just a few pics left and they are mostly just cool plants- so a bit of my science geek self showing through here. In any case, enjoy geeking out with me.
This first one is called the water cocoa plant. Marco grabbed one, gave it a twist then thwacked it.
and voila!
Bora is a floating plant that just rides the tides back and forth. It looks like it could choke a river completely but Marco said that every once and a while the salt level from the sea rises just enough to kill it all. Nature's checks and balances.
This is a little schoolhouse across from our lodge. You know more people are killed each year from falling coconuts than...
I understand when rams headbutt and peacocks strut there stuff but flowers- seriously you are just showing off.
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| these are full of water... honest. |
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| just taking some leaf scrap to the compost pile. |
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| mangroves- like the honey badger in saltwater- they don't care. |
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| Luca with his jungle hat |
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| vegetarian |
You know the plants are tough when this machete is required to hike through them. I consider myself a hearty outdoors-man that could hold his own in the forest. But after 10 minutes hiking through the jungle without a guide I would be a curled up whimpering husk of a man.
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| nice boots |
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| told you there was water |
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