The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

If you scrape this plant with a machete

And then light it on fire, the oil smells nice. This is probably not the most important thing to know if you’re lost in the Amazon. But at least you have a machete and a lighter.

This plant is where quinine comes from, which was good to treat malaria. But all the malaria is resistant now, so that’s also not terribly useful to know.

We recommend not getting lost in the Amazon.

There are big trees

Much bigger than Kerri

They start out as little trees

A tamandua climbed this tree and was super cute but way too fast to get a picture.

This tree bleeds rubber.

This is a millipede

This is another cicada chimney

Maybe. Honestly we don’t remember.

This is a bullet ant. Do not touch.

This is a tarantula.

Don’t touch him either.

Here are some other ants.

If you let these ants crawl on you

And then smush them all over your hands, it’s supposed to keep the mosquitos away.

Here’s some weird fungi

And some flooded forest.

We saw a lizard

And a bunch of dolphins

I think these are just grey dolphins

But it’s hard to tell from blurry pictures two months later

This is definitely a grey dolphin because it has a short snout

And I think it has a baby next to it.

Most of the dolphin pictures just have a fin and look like sharks.

We also saw Hoatzin which are really funky dinosaur birds.

Then we went fishing, which you already saw, and then searching for caiman.

We weren’t terribly excited because we’d already seen all the caiman we wanted to see in daylight.

But our guide decided to torture a baby for us anyway.

Poor baby

We took a boat into the Amazon

That’s the Amazon over there

The brown part.

The black part is the River Negro

The rivers meet but don’t mix

Now we’re in the Amazon

Trying to race those storm clouds.

The lake our hotel is on is more still.

This is our dock.

And here is our hotel room.

In the Amazon Rain Forest.