This was an interesting port stop, no excursions and it was a town of ~100 people. We were told there really wasn’t anything in the town except people wanting your money by having you pay to have your picture taken with them. I have no idea why this was a stop other than some deal may have been made with Brazil to help subsidize the town people, we opted to stay on the ship. Glad we did as there was a pod of Pink Dolphins hanging around the ship. They are very hard to get pictures of as they weren’t staying on top of the water or breaching like the dolphins we see in Florida. The color on the photo is pretty bad, not sure if it was due to the sun or the dark chocolate color of the water. I added a second picture from the internet that gives you an idea of what they look like. The picture I took looked like two baby dolphins next to each other.
Well tomorrow is Manaus and this was supposed to be our only stop with a dock but the ship was notified that the dock was not suitable for our use so we are back to tenders. Hope they do the same thing they did today and put a portable dock so the river boats will pick us up from the ship. Not much else going on tonight except the singers and dancers have a show at 9:30, we have a an early excursion tomorrow so we are going to order room service for breakfast.
Our excursion goes from 8:45 AM to 1:15 PM, Meeting of the Waters, this is where 2 rivers of different colors join together and flow side by side for a couple miles. This trip is also supposed to travel to a lake where the giant Amazon Lily Pads are floating, hopefully the water is high enough there.
We then have our night time excursion where we go out trying to spot Caiman it leaves at 7:45 and returns ~11:30 PM, so its going to be a long day. I’m going to post this days blog tonight and not do the Manaus days until we start heading back down the river. So just because I haven’t posted in a couple days that doesn’t mean we were eaten by a Caiman.
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