Other Scenery Photos



These were pushed off the "Better Photos" page... but I hope you still find them worth perusing. If you see one that you think should replace something on the Better Photos page, I'd love to hear your thought!

Apologies if this page in particular is slow to load... the scenery along our trip's way was unresistable, but I will try to winnow what is here eventually....



[Image of Amazon from air]

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I think it is fun that you can see what the riverside trees profile would look like from the line of shadows on the water, far side. This is one of the minor channels... the river is wider than this! (It often splits into parallel channels.)


[Image of an Amazon view]

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Hour after hour as we cruised the river sights like this surrounded up.



[Image of river near Iquitos, Peru]

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Opposite the main docks in Iquitos. We didn't see boats as large as this often. The building is huge by local standards... I didn't see another anything like as large, nor another one out in the middle of the water.... but I think the picture is pretty, even if unrepresentative!


[Image of rain at dusk]

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At dusk, at the ExplorNapo lodge. View from walkway in front of our rooms. Many of the photos in these pages fail to capture the color of the water. It was closer to this warm chocolatey, copper color than to the muddy grey in many of my photos. This was known as "white" water... a different meaning that the "white water" beloved of river rafting enthusiasts. There was also "black" water, which was exactly that. The black water occured mainly in sequestered bodies of water, oxbows, where there was no current to keep the silt in suspension. The black came from tannic acids... it was essentially very strong tea. However, water flowing out of side channels could be relatively black. Where two types of water met, there were often dolphin and terns feeding. We rarely saw dolphins except at such boundaries.


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A nice sample of rainforest. I found it more enchanting than brooding.



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One of our walks through the jungle.


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Ranger station, deep in the Pacaya-Samira reserve. The tree in the right foreground is the famous breadfruitel.


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Note the roils on the water's surface. While we never saw waves from wind, the flat water was still significantly energetic, with this roiling common.


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Requena.Link to maps.google.com for 5.066 deg S, 73.909 deg W This is to the left of the picture below...


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Requena again.Link to maps.google.com for 5.066 deg S, 73.909 deg W This is to the right of the picture above. Requena is on the Ucayali and was sited on the one big of high ground we saw in 700 miles. I'd love to know how that high ground came to exist in the region... it is effectively "plowed" by the contantly twisting river channels.

In a related vein, there is an theory I find fascinating that an extensive civilization lived in the Amazon basin, but that the archaeological record has been wiped out by the river's meanderings.


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The Amazon in another light.


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Quite a large boat. Call this the local "BMW/ SUV".


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[Aerial image of Amazon]

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One strand of the river from the air. Perhaps half a mile across... the scale of things is hard to grasp... you'll have to visit, see for yourself!


[Aerial image of Amazon]

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While not a perfect photo, this does a better job than some of my river pictures of conveying the gorgous coppery/ chocolate colour. It seemed that the water was more viscous than clear water, but maybe that was my imagination. Also, the silt was so fine that it didn't affect my eyes at all when swimming.


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I thought this was pretty good, then discovered I'd taken an overlapping picture, and could create....


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And THAT seemed pretty good.... (see previous comment)... and then I discovered ANOTHER photo in the series..... (The overall effect took MANY hours. Be sure to bring a WIDE angle lens with you if you go the the Amazon. I had an 18mm lens... which took three "bites" to capture this.)


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Coming out of one of the creeks we went up to see birds and wild-life.


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A typical peaceful scene.



Sorry... this page is just getting started.... I'll try to re-order the photos, add comments, get the file sizes right.... Later! More photos, first? ...


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