We’re in the Pantanal!
The pool is not as nice here.
But that’s OK, because we’re here for some serious wildlife viewing.
The Pantanal is the wetlands area that covers part of Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia.
A lot of it is used for ranch land.
So it looks a lot like Alberta.
But the cows are a bit funny looking.
And there are a lot of termite mounds.
There’s also some other wildlife that we’ll see in a few days just not while walking around.
The wildlife hunting started before we even left for the Pantanal.
Do you see him?
He’s right there.
He was under our sunbed at the pool.
A local man came up to Kerri and said “lagertixa enorme” and pointed under our sunbed.
Kerri understood that perfectly, because she speaks Spanish, and it sounds just like “lagertija”.
So she went poking around under the sunbed trying to get a picture. See him?
There he is!
Then a staff member came to ask what she was doing, and she said “lagertija”!
And the staff member said “no English”.
So apparently Kerri can only listen to Portuguese.
Do you think she can actually speak Spanish?
Kerri then said “animale enorme”, and the staff member looked alarmed.
He was only actually big compared to the other lizards at the pool, which were all too fast to get pictures of.
Kerri is not going to try to speak any more Portuguese.
We went for Brazilian BBQ as our first outing after a long day of travel to get part way to the first starting point.
In Brazil dinner is usually a little later, so we had the place almost to ourselves.
Even then there was no shortage of options, but we didn’t take any other pictures. We were very full by the end.
