Oct 30, 2018 - Delfin II
Today we woke up to our second full day of exploring the Peruvian Amazon under a light rain which stopped just before we boarded our skiffs shortly after breakfast. We headed towards a beautiful private reserve located along the northern shore of the Marañón River known as the Amazon Natural Park, looking forward to a great morning of hiking and learning. Amazon Natural Park has been privately-protected for more than a couple of decades and it shows: huge trees and luxuriant tropical vegetation covers it and are home to a great number of creatures. But in order to reach the hiking trail we needed to cross a lake, which we did
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During the afternoon we went back to the southern shore of the Marañón River and explored of the small tributaries known as Nauta Caño in the Pacaya-Samiria Nature Reserve. Some did so by kayaking while the rest used the skiffs, but all enjoyed great wildlife sightings of birds, monkeys, and sloths before heading back to our luxurious floating home Delfín II after having had another excellent day exploring the Peruvian Amazon.
Carlos J. Navarro is a biochemist specializing in marine biology, a M. Sc. in Environmental Management and a freelance wildlife photographer/author. Carlos has spent most of the last 30 years living along the shores of the Sea of Cortez and participating in numerous scientific, conservation and environmental education projects on the vaquita, marine invertebrates, sea birds, great white sharks, baleen whales, jaguars and crocodiles. Carlos’ six years of jaguar research provided the basis of ONCA MAYA, a non-profit organization dedicated to jaguar conservation based in Cancun, of which he is a founding member and still serves as a scientific advisor. He loves being underwater, either free-diving or using SCUBA gear and have had the chance to explore the underwater realms of Alaska, Mexico, Svalbard, the trans-Atlantic ridge islands, the Caribbean and both coasts of South America from Panama to Chile and Brazil to Argentina.