Iquitos (Research Lodge and Restinga) (Day 23) (5/4/19)

Today, after breakfast we headed up the river to the research lodge.  The research lodge is a lot smaller, but just as comfortable as the main lodge.  After lunch, Fernando and I went out for a canoe ride around the Tahuayo River.  We saw some Woolley monkeys, and about an hour into our outing, it became really windy and it began raining.  

At 5:30pm, we started heading to the “restinga” high ground. For the first half the time getting there we traveled with a motorboat and for the second half traveled by canoe.  During the couple of hours on the Restinga we saw an Amazon bushwack snake (one of the most rare and dangerous snakes), cayman crocodiles, frogs, rats, bullet ants, and more.  We then headed back to the research lodge and shortly thereafter headed to bed

Link to today’s photos: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LDlDimNXVWHqKrC26k68EAiKUKrOc568

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