Second day on the Manatee

We woke up at 5:15am this morning, took a quick breakfast and all left for an hour trip downstream on our little boat in order to reach one of the Napo Wildlife Center spots that was suppose to have a lot of birds. It sure had a lot of birds because we could hear them, but unfortunately we have just seen a far away flow of birds for the first fifteen minutes but we stayed until nine hoping to see some more and closer, but we didn’t. So we took our little up for fifteen minutes upstream, walked through puddles of mud, up and down hills, across rivers and finally arrived to our second Wildlife spot. There we have seen thousands and thousands of parrots up in the high trees, but for over forty-five minutes, they flew down in a little cave and we could literally see thousands of green parrots with blue wings on the inside no further than thirty meters away from us. I was a superb ballet of colorful green birds. We then walked back our way to the boat and drove our boat back to our main ship where we have once again been greeted with a welcome back cocktail. We then had a twenty minute rest before getting lunch, after lunch we had a good two hours rest and as everybody was exhausted they all locked themselves in their respective room, but I went at the bar and spoke with the crew for a good hour before heading to my room to write a couple lines before leaving for the afternoon excursion. We then boarded again our little boat and headed upstream this time for a very different vegetation type of high grass. We walked through this green for half an hour before reaching a paved path that led to a village that was built around a petrol resource and for a petrol industry, what a shame! But we didn’t actually see the village but only the school that was on the way to the lake. We waited for a good half hour speaking to military that were trying to fish before we got on a small wooden boat for a lake tour. On the tour, we saw birds of course, a couple monkeys, I tried to fish piranhas unsuccessfully and when night occurred and obscurity was ruling over the evening we took the spotlight out and searched for caiman alligators. It’s absolutely incredible the eyes of the caimans reflect red light as if they where cars breaking, it’s unbelievable. We also saw loads of glowing mosquitoes, some fireflies and others that wouldn't fly, but in such quantity, that we could guide ourselves by their light. You’ve got to see it to believe it. We then headed back to the port where we embarked, took a cap to another port of the village, took our little boat to cross the Napo River and stepped on our Manatee boat for dinner. After dinner I had a little talk with Christina to settle some small issues and started chilling at the bar with everyone. Had a nice and musically chilled evening.