Night Walk in the Amazon Rain Forest

Our first excursion into the rain forest was at night, our first day on The Manatee (www.manateeamazonexplorer.com).  It was a great success.  It would have been even better if it hadn’t been cut short because someone was afraid of snakes.

We left The Manatee and took the motorized canoe to a local farm.  Wow, our first walk and we saw some really cool stuff!  Giant termite nests in trees, bullet ants, a wolf spider, millipedes, a centipede, ginormous banana plants, walking stick insects, cool flora, really awesome spiders, a tailless scorpion, tree frogs, army ants and a giant tarantula.

Now the funny part…not too far into the walk I saw a man bent over looking at his leg.  I walked over and asked him if he was all right.  He said “I got dirt on my pants!”.  Oh, for crying out loud… we’re in the RAIN FOREST!

Once we were quite a distance from the river and from the farmer’s house, and under a huge group of low-hanging trees, our guide told us to turn off our flashlights (iPhones in the case of Curtis and me) and listen to the sounds of the rain forest.  Immediately, a man started whining that he was afraid there would be snakes in the trees (the branches were touching our heads).  The guide immediately turned on his light and started heading back to the canoe.  Thanks, dude, for cutting our walk short!