Bauana-Carauari - Amazon River - Oct 2008

     
 

We left Bauana early in the morning to try to make as many kilometers as possible under the fresh morning air...
we knew it was going to be a long day, about 8 hours to reach Carauari.

The first image is when we are leaving the igarapé Bauana, and entering into the Juruá River.
We were leaving behind two days of work at the Uacarí RDS (Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável de Uacari).

We were driving two small (and crowded) aluminum boats... with overboard engines, and carrying plenty of gasoline with us, to make the whole trip with only one stop for changing the fuel tanks (nowhere to buy gasoline) and carrying all our gear.

after some hours, the heat, the constant beating the water by the boat, was taking some of us into the siesta mode...
but I could not, the images were constantly changing, people in their little wooden boats, trees tall short fallen growing, sand dunes, floating trunks (had to wake up our pilot as we were going to crash into one), the magnificent simplicity and complexity of the forest was like an adrenaline shot for me... I shoot nearly 900 pics... more than 100 per hour...

at the end of the day, at Carauari, we were leaving the hotel going for dinner, when we saw an amazing sky...