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    Suriname 2010 - Part 3 - Lucia river - day 5 to 10, mostly flat water to Amotopo


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Some campsite (this one remembered by "2 poles give more shade than 1")

Some caterpillar

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Lucia river

Me after pleasant warm rain.

Some break

"Fishing cayman" wood

Our group

Pavel and Andea

Jirka and Eva

Me and Petra

Honza with butterfly

Jungle fauna

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Jungle fauna

Jungle fauna

Jungle fauna

Jungle flora

Jungle fauna

Jungle fauna

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Jungle fauna

Jungle fauna

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Jungle fauna

Jungle fauna

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Last day - lots of small rapids

Last day of paddling

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1 of 4 boats of our group had the luck to see jaguar even make this foto.

We later went to the place where it was seen but found only these traces.

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Kapybaras were seen several times, but no photo was take, so this one is from some postcard ...

Although water from the river was ok for chemical treatment only, part of the group used mechanical treatment (with real flow rate of MSR Miniworks being about 5 mins per 1 liter including cleaning).

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The end of paddling - in a village on the right side of the Lucie river at the place, where the river begins to diverge into several streams before joining the Corentine border river (makes border with Guyana).

 At the village (called Boumera?) we expected to meet some indians ans ask them to take us about 10km upriver (by Corentine river) to Amotopo village/airstrip. But nobody was here for some time already. Fortunately, we called Gum Air by satellite phone (Inmarsat IsatPhone Pro) and they called to Amotopo by radio to come for us from there.

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Waiting at Boumera

Boat from Amotopo arrives

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Fixing our inflatables to the motor boat

Luckily, we did not have to paddle 10km upstream, it  would take probably more than 1 very demanding day plus there are several side streams, one needs to go where to go.

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Boy of Trio indians
Boy of Trio indians

 

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