The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

Caiman are pretty ferocious looking.

If I were a bug, I would stay away.

I certainly wouldn’t crawl around in a caiman’s eyes.

Or perch on its nose.

But Kerri is not a bug.

She’s not afraid of Caiman

Even when there are lots of them.

And some of them are camouflaged really well.

The heron thought she was crazy.

But that cute little caiman wouldn’t hurt a fly!

This guy has lettuce in his teeth, he must be vegetarian!

I don’t know where the blood near his eye came from, but I’m sure it’s his.

The Jabiru storks have some very noisy neighbours in their basement.

The parakeets just move right in to the bottom of the nest

Hanging upside down from the rafters

Throwing loud parties all of the time

They aren’t very good neighbours

I would kick them out if I was a stork.

There are a lot of birds in the Pantanal.

In fact, there are more species of birds in the Pantanal than in all of North America.

There are little birds.

And there are big rhea that we drove by but forgot to take pictures of.

There are birds that look kind of scary.

There are birds that fish in the water.

And birds that eat seeds.

And birds that eat insects.

There are birds that look like birds at home.

And birds that don’t.

There was even a bird’s nest on top of the Welcome to the Pantanal sign.

The lodge has a little ocelot playground set up where the ocelot likes to visit.

With a place for us to hide.

And stare at the tree branches until they look like they have eyes.

Waiting for the ocelot to show up.

The ocelot never showed up.

Maybe next time.

On the way back we heard an armadillo and saw a snake.

So that’s something.

After that we went on a night game drive and saw a couple deer.

Overall, not a very successful night.