©
Robert Siegel
-->
quick link to photo index
-->
quick link to South America photos
The Pantanal, 2014
Quick links within page
jaguar
-
giant river otter
-
capybara
-
monkeys
-
other mammals
-
birds
-
reptiles
-
caiman
-
frogs
-
fish
-
bugs
-
butterflies
-
other inverts
-
flora
-
giant water lilies
-
fungi
-
food
-
fellow travelers
-
people
-
bob
-
rabies
-
chapada dos guimarães
-
cuiabá
-
poconé
-
porto jofré
-
transpantaneira highway
-
orphanage
-
PCER
-
jaguar lodge
-
laboratory
-
flotel
-
on the river
-
misc
-
landscapes
-
sunrise
-
sunset
-
participants
-
itinerary
Related pages
Poconé
-
Brazil 2011
-
Pantanal 2011
-
Iguazú 2011
-
Rio 2011
-
The Manczyks
-
Birds of Brazil
-
Capybara
-
Green anacaonda
Jaguar
What she looked like to us
What we looked like to her
What jaguars think about humans
Looking back
Sitting
Jaguar in the grass
Jaguar iconography
Jaguar close
Closer look
Find the jaguar
Giant river otter
Sushi
Emerging
Profile
One and an otter
Fish, again??
Hand-held device
When otters try to roll their tongues
River on land
Into the den
Capybara swimming
Nursing
Kids
Come along kids
The capybara family goes for a swim
Female howler
Branching out
Howler
Where capuccinos comes from
Marsh deer
Puppies
Dogs
Canine print
Calf
Pig
Pig ()
August, 2014
Maned wolf
Crab-eating fox
Tapir
Tapiring to the right
Ocelot profiled
Anteater
Lesser grison
Lesser grison
Lesser grison
Birds
Peek-a-boo
Peek-a-two
Peek-at-you
Peek-a-three
Amazon in the Pantanal
Holey bird
Blue-fronted amazon (Amazona aestiva)
Jaguar Lodge
The Pantanal
August, 2014
Facing the blues
Blue-fronted amazon (Amazona aestiva)
Jaguar Lodge
August, 2014
Socializing monks
Monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus)
The Pantanal
August, 2014
Conference of monks
Monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus)
The Pantanal
August, 2014
Getting
Seriema
in order
Closing in on seriema
Closing in on seriema
Carancho
In-flight caracara
Carrion a conversation
Here and -gon
Everything's coming up roses
Buff fellow
Buffed up
King of the ring
Tiger of the Pantanal
High stepper
My great egret about the Pantanal
Anhinga
Jabiru on the beach
When things start to take off in the Pantanal
Running start
Jabirus mating
Skimmer
Skimmers
When skimmers sing
Flicker on the mound
Campo flicker (Colaptes campestris)
August, 2014
Pecker on the tree
Gallinule
Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinicus)
Purple "swamp hen" - rail family (Rallidae)
August, 2014
Black-collared hawk
Hawk and mosquito
Hopper's demise
Rufous-tailed jacamar (Galbula ruficauda))
Family: Galbulidae
The Pantanal
August 26, 2014
Canon Rebel T5i
Chestnut-eared aracari (Pteroglossus castanotis)
Aracari
Aracari
Undulated tinamou
Ecoa
August 27, 2014
While this picture leaves much to be desired,
it is my first easily recognizable picture of a tinamou,
and thus of the order Tinamiformes.
The great and mighty
Great potoo
August, 2014
Nightjar
Scissor-tailed nightjar (Hydropsalis torquata)
August, 2014
The great and horny
Great horned owl
The Pantanal
August, 2014
Southern
Lapwing
Greater rhea
Family: Rheidae
Cuiabá zoo
The Pantanal
August 29, 2014
Canon 50D
King vulture
Yellow-billed cardinal
Horny welcome
And into the oven
The barred ant shrikes again
One nun
Tasty treat
The head nun
The rant
Yellow-rumped cacique
Pissed and ready to scream
Reptiles
Caiman
Standing his ground
Yacare caiman (Caiman yacare)
The Pantanal
August, 2014
Portrait of Yacare in Grey
Yacare caiman (Caiman yacare)
The Pantanal
August, 2014
Caiman eye
Yacare caiman (Caiman yacare)
PCER
August, 2014
All lined up
Yacare caiman (Caiman yacare)
Transpantaneiro Highway
The Pantanal
August, 2014
The head of the caiman
Yacare caiman (Caiman yacare)
Transpantaneiro Highway neaar Jaguar Lodge
The Pantanal
August, 2014
The shaky shaky
Caiman bellowing
Yacare caiman (Caiman yacare)
Transpantaneiro Highway near Jaguar Loadge
August, 2014
Caiman with fish
Yacare caiman (Caiman yacare)
The Pantanal
August, 2014
Caiman with fish redux
Yacare caiman (Caiman yacare)
The Pantanal
August, 2014
Shit-eating grin
What is that thing in its mouth???
Yacare caiman (Caiman yacare)
August, 2014
Death and harbinger
Caiman and vulture
The Pantanal
August, 2014
When tegu's get egg on their face
Tegu tongue
Tegu tongue
Tegu tongue
Tegu skin
Snake
Turtle treat
??Red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonaria) ??
Cuiabá
August 29, 2014
Frogs
Toad
Fish
Fish eye
When fish teeth get im-pacu'ed
Painted fish
Catfish
Lungfish
Lungfish
Campo Jofré, Transpantaneira Highway
The Pantanal
August, 2014
Lungfish close
Lungfish
Campo Jofré, Transpantaneira Highway
The Pantanal
August, 2014
Piranha
Piranha teeth
Piranha spots
Piranha hooked
Piranha face and hook
Bob's big catch
Emma and piranha
Emma and piranha
Consummate piranha
Fish for sale
Pocon&eacte;
August, 2014
Fish for scale
Bugs
Brazilian dragon
When dragonflies are envious
Butterflies
Butterflies
Alana
Alana White-Skipper (Heliopetes alana)
Family: Hesperiidae
Chapada National Park
Chapada dos Guimaraes
State of Mato Grosso
The Pantanal
August 10, 2014
Canon Rebel T5i
Butterfly
Chapada National Park
Chapada dos Guimaraes
State of Mato Grosso
The Pantanal
August 10, 2014
Canon Rebel T5i
Morpho morphology
Ephemeral
Morpho caterpillar
August, 2014
Pantanal papillon
August, 2014
Moth
August, 2014
Naranjita (Chlosyne lacinia saundersi )
August, 2014
Dear Bob,
We initially thought that because of the pronounced labial palps,
that this might be a Snout Butterfly in the subfamily Libytheinae,
but we could find no similar looking members of the subfamily from Brazil in our initial search.
While we cannot confirm the subfamily at this time,
we are confident that the Brushfooted Butterfly family Nymphalidae is correct.
We could not locate a match on Insetologia, our sister site from Brazil,
nor did we have any luck on the Butterflies of Amazon & Andes.
Finally, we believe we found a match in the Bordered Patch, Chlosyne lacinia,
which according to the Butterflies in Brazil and Argentina at Iguazu Falls during Focus On Nature Tours site,
is called the Naranjita and "has a very variable pattern. It prefers sunny places and feeds on nectar".
The site also states: "the Bordered Patch, the subspecies Chlosyne lacinia saundersi
This subspecies, in southeast Brazil and the Iguazu area, has more orange in the upperwings than other subspecies,
hence the common name there of 'Naranjita'. "
Now that we had a name, we did locate the Bordered Patch on the Butterflies of Amazon & Andes where it states:
"Males are usually seen either when nectaring at Asteraceae, or when imbibing mineralised moisture from patches of damp ground. Females when freshly emerged are so heavily laden with eggs that they are barely capable of flying."
We have examples of the Bordered Patch from North America in our archives.
Daniel Marlos from whatsthatbug.com
Naranjita (Chlosyne lacinia saundersi )
August, 2014
Monarch-y
Caterpillar
Gold-butt ant
If there were a little five of the Pantanal...
I was told this is a jaguar ant, but so far I have been unable to find anything like it on the internet
August, 2014
Ant ()
Pantanal, Brazil
Ant on leaf
Big headed ant
Spiders
Spiny orb-weaver
When spiders have fun-nel
Tarantula
Blue striped water spider
Taking it in stride
Scorpion with eggs
Scorpion in a cup
Other inverts
Snail shell
Flora
Fiddlehead
Marc
Amaryllis
Amaryllis
Fire ant tree
Fire ant tree
Melastoma
Clidemia capitellata
Family: Melastomataceae (melastome family)
The Pantanal
August 26, 2014
Canon 50D
Purple flower
Purple flower
Strangler
Strangler fig
Pantanal, Brazil
August 22, 2014
Canon rebel T5i
Papaya
Orange flower
Pod
Source of annatto, from the seeds
Cactus
Gall
Floral cowboy
Acari palm nuts
Kapok and palm
Kapok seed
August, 2014
Bark
August, 2014
Leaf
Chapada National Park
Chapada dos Guimaraes
State of Mato Grosso
The Pantanal
August 10, 2014
Red flower
Chapada National Park
Chapada dos Guimaraes
State of Mato Grosso
The Pantanal
August 10, 2014
Twisted grass
Grass ()
Family: Poaceae
Chapada National Park
Chapada dos Guimaraes
State of Mato Grosso
The Pantanal
August 10, 2014
Giant water lilies
Pads
Flower
Florivory
Bud
Close-up
Lone flower
Lone flower among giants
A lily respite for Darwin
Small cluster of giants
Forest of giant
When the sun sets on the giant water lilies
Fungi and friends
Pink growth
Lichens rock out
Lichens
Food
Our first lunch in Cuiadá
August 9, 2014
Fellow travelers
The Pantanal starts here
August, 2014
The group
August 10, 2014
Morgan reads personalized limmericks
Cuiabá
August 30, 2014
Happy birthday Emma
Cuiabá
August, 2014
Tito
Jaguar Lodge
August, 2014
Combing Emma's hair
Jaguar Lodge
August, 2014
Ocellot evolution
Nose ornament
SESC Center
August, 2014
Kiss of the butterfly
Sarah
SESC Center
August, 2014
Martell drenched
Chapada
August, 2014
Coming up for air
SESC Center
The Pantanal
August, 2014
Morgan and friend
SESC Center
The Pantanal
August, 2014
Matt in the hat
Morgan and Marc
The group in Chapada
Chapada dos Guimarães National Park (Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Guimarães)
August 10, 2014
The group by the waterfall
Chapada dos Guimarães National Park (Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Guimarães)
August 10, 2014
In the waterfall
Chapada dos Guimarães National Park (Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Guimarães)
August 10, 2014
The group above the Pantanal
August, 2014
Going nuts in Chapada
Claire, Sarah, and Calum
Chapada
Christina goes fishing
This rather large fish actually jumped into our boat.
Pantanal, Brazil
August, 2014
Fishkiss
Fish
Taken with a fish eye lens
Cooks
Ethan and Cole
August, 2014
Caipirinha
Celebrating Cole's helping me to spot and photograph a trogon
Caipirinha is the Brazilian national cocktail
With Cole, Morgan, Catie, and me
Jaguar Lodge
August, 2014
Megan timing her juggle
August, 2014
Morgan has a ball
August 9, 2014
Martell and coke
August 9, 2014
Why didn't I get the memo about plaid?
August 9, 2014
Ethan and Suélen
Ethan Shirley and Suélen Leite
São Bento School near Porto Jofre
August, 2014
Calum and Martell
Megan invested
Merriment
August, 2014
Group at Panthera
Porto Jofré
August, 2014
People
At the museum
Cuiabá
August 29, 2014
Girl
Cuiabá
August 29, 2014
Two girls
Cuiabá
August 29, 2014
Smiling girl
August, 2014
Three girls
August, 2014
3 friends
Cuiabá zoo
The Pantanal
August 29, 2014
Canon rebel T51
Girl
Girl
Girl and Darwin
Cuiabá zoo
The Pantanal
August 29, 2014
Canon rebel T51
Emma's birthday
Cuiabá zoo
The Pantanal
August 29, 2014
Canon rebel T51
Scola Basica
Girl with Brazil dress at clinic
Cuiabá
August, 2014
Caretaker
Poconé
August 27, 2014
Fishing
Araras ecolodge
Truckin'
Casa do zico
Darwin's little duck
Duck ()
Family: Anatidae -
August 24, 2014
Canon 50D
Young girl
Jaguar Lodge
August, 2014
Paulina, Charles, and Bob
Flotel
August, 2014
Charlie, Charlie, and Bob
Selso, Charles, and Bob
This guy was one of the happiest people I ever met
He was also the person who took us horseback riding
By PCER
August, 2014
Three teachers
Suélen, Chuckie, and me
São Bento School near Porto Jofre
August, 2014
Two trees
with Rodrigo Rascher
Chapada
August, 2014
Safari truck
PCER
August, 2014
Jono!
Ran into Jono, Beckie, and the girls at SFO en route to Atlanta.
Jono was the first TA for my undergraduate course The Impact of AIDS
We also overlapped in med school.
August 5, 2014
Bob
Fun with kapok
Jaguar Lodge
August, 2014
Snorkeling
Chapada dos Guimarães
August 11, 2014
Pacu and Bob
Living dangerously
Chapada
August, 2014
Drenched
Chapada
August, 2014
Darwin and wannabe
Forest near Jaguar Lodge
August, 2014
Riparian meditation
Jabbering
Hyacinth
Another fish story
August 29, 2014
Bob and babe
Appreciative students
Back in the saddle
Nose ornament
Blue morpho
The Pantanal
August, 2014
Camera ornament
Blue morpho
The Pantanal
August, 2014
Rabies
Foreshadowing
Poconé
August, 2014
Rabies takes a poke at Bob
Cuiabá
August, 2014
Rabies immune globulin
Cuiabá
August 18, 2014
Successfully given
Cuiabá
August 18, 2014
Vaccinate me here
The significance of this is that one arm is spared rabies immune globulin (RIG) infection and that is where the first does of the actual rabies vaccine is given.
Cuiabá
August 18, 2014
Hospital head
The head of the hospital was extremely helpful in facililtating our ability to get rabies immunoglobulin
Cuiabá
August 18, 2014
Shooting the shooter
Rabies vaccination
Cuiabá
August 18, 2014
I felt like I was doubly protected.
Rabies vaccination
Cuiabá
August, 2014
Shot in the arm
Rabies vaccination
Cuiabá
August 18, 2014
Influenza vaccine shirt
This was worn by one of the rabies vaccine clinic nurses.
It provides protection against griping.
Cuiabá
August, 2014
Rabies guidelines
Cuiabá
August, 2014
Sala de vacina
Cuiabá
August, 2014
Yellow card
Cuiabá
August, 2014
Vaccinated
Cuiabá
August, 2014
Fun with vaccines
Cuiabá
August, 2014
Saved my life
Cuiabá
August, 2014
Mosquito nets
Cuiabá
August, 2014
The virus doctor
Flotel
August, 2014
Waterfall
Chapada National Park
August 10, 2014
Macaw across the falls
Chapada
Chapada National Park
Chapada dos Guimaraes
State of Mato Grosso
The Pantanal
August 10, 2014
Clinging for life
Cactus ()
Chapada National Park
Chapada dos Guimaraes
State of Mato Grosso
The Pantanal
August 10, 2014
When knowing Spanish might get you in troule
Poconé
August, 2014
Poconé
Poconé
August, 2014
Pink church
Poconé
August, 2014
Pink church
Poconé
August 8, 2014
Poconé church from above
Poconé
August 8, 2014
Blue church
Pocon&eacte;
August, 2014
Blue church
Pocon&eacte;
August, 2014
Window
Pocon&eacte;
August, 2014
Putting the horse before the cart
Poconé
August 8, 2014
Tommy Cachaça
Poconé
August 8, 2014
Recycling
Poconé
August 8, 2014
Window
Poconé
August, 2014
Water in the wetlands
Poconé
August 8, 2014
Aviators three
Poconé
August 8, 2014
Selfie above the Pantanal
Poconé
August 8, 2014
Mining
When trucks get down in the dumps
Gold mine
near Poconé
August, 2014
Gold mines from above
Gold mine
near Poconé
August, 2014
The laboratory
Samples
This abandoned laboratory was where I had a very serious allergic reaction on my last trip to the Pantanal.
The reaction occurred after being stunk and opening a cabinette door, which unfortunately disturbed a hidden vespid nest.
Although many of the buildings remain, three years later, the site of the attack has been torn down.
August, 2014
Plant in window
This plant is actually growing inside an abandoned building.
August, 2014
Jaguar Lodge
Welcome
August, 2014
Orphanage
Dinner at the orphanage
August, 2014
Oven at the orphanage
August, 2014
Flotel
Flotel
August, 2014
River
How our luggage traveled to the national park
Fishing boat
August, 2014
Misc
My luggage finally arrived
Poconá
August, 2014
In memorium
Small cementary near Ecoa
The Pantanal
August 27, 2014
Carrots
Market in Cuiabá
August, 2014
Antarctica in the Pantanal
Cuiabá
August, 2014
The view from my window
Poconé
August, 2014
Wisdom from a butt
Along the Transpantaneira
August, 2014
When the Brazilian students arrived
PCER
August, 2014
I am not sure why they need a store for this
But I can understand why that store might be surrounded by barbed wire
Cuiab&aacte;
August, 2014
Transpantaneira Highway
Transpantaneira from the eira
August, 2014
Dawn on the bridge
August, 2014
Leaving us in their dust
Termite town
The bridge by Jaguar Lodge
One of 122 wooden bridges
The Pantanal
August, 2014
Below the surface
The bridge near Jaguar Lodge
The Pantanal
August, 2014
PCER
Landscapes
Pantanal from above
Solar rays on
Crazed over the Pantanal
Where the Pantanal ends
Amolar Hills from the Paraguay River
August 27, 2014
Sunset
First evening
August, 2014
On the water
The Pantanal
August 24, 2014
Canon rebel T5i
Requisite sunset
Avian eclipse
Supermoon
Participants
Morgan Elizabeth Abbett
-
Palani Robert Akana
-
Matt Mitchell Benjamin
-
Sarah Espaldon
-
Megan Marie Good
-
Martell Amelia Hesketh
-
Catie Marie Mong
-
Christina Nicole Morrisett
-
Cole Raymond Stites-Clayton
-
Calum You
-
Claire Zabel
-
Emma Lassiter, course assistant
-
Ethan Shirley, tour provider and guide
-
Tito Falcão , guide
-
Robert Siegel, professor
Itinerary: August 5 - 31, 2014 in progress
- August 5-6, 2014 en route - SFO to Poconé
- August 6-9, 2014 Poconé
- August 9-10, 2014 Cuiabá
- August 10-11, 2014 Chapada
- August 11-13, 2014 Poconé
- August 13-17, 2014 Jaguar Lodge / PCER
- August 17-19, 2014 Cuiabá
- August 19-22, 2014 Jaguar Lodge / PCER
- August 22-25, 2014 Flotel
- August 25-28, 2014 Ecoa
- August 28-30, 2014 Cuiabá
- August 30-31, 2014 en route - Cuiabá to SFO
-
August 5, 2014 - Depart SFO to Atlanta on Delta
-
-
-
August 6, 2014 - Brasilia to Cuiabá to Poconé
- Luggage did not arrive in Cuiabá
- Met at the airport by Eliton
- Drive to Poconé
- Stop to take some pix by the gold mines
- Arrive Pousada Pantaneira (Hotel e Churrascaria Pousada Pantaneira)
- Dinner with Ethan and Cole at Versao Brasilero Restaurant in Poconé
-
August 7, 2014 - Poconé
- Breakfast at the hotel
- Spent most of the day working in the room
- Pictures of hotel barbeque
- Walk into Poconé in afternoon - beautiful sunset
- Dinner at the orphanage with Ethan and Cole
- Bags finally arrived in Poconé around 10 pm
-
August 8, 2014 - Poconé
- Breakfast at the hotel
- Work in the room
- Walk into 20,
Pocone in afternoon
- Met by Cole and Ethan
- Drive to Pocone airport
- Pantanal flyover in small plane with Cole, Ethan, me and pilot Adilio
- Dinner with Ethan and Cole - in town - Forno D'Lenha Pizza restarant
-
August 9, 2014 - Poconé to Cuiabá
- Drive to Cuiabá airport to pick up students
- Check-in to hotel
- Lunch at restaurant across from hotel
- Walk waround Cuiabá
- Dinner with entire group except Palani
-
August 10, 2014 - Cuiabá to Chapada
- Drive to Chapada Dos Guimarães
- Make sandwiches, meet up with Andre
- Hike to waterfall - swimming, lunch
- Hike to second water hole - swimming
- Hike to big waterfall - watch vultures and macaws flying across waterfall
- Encounter birdman - Rodrigo Rascher
- Dinner at Restaurante Mamamia - pizza
-
August 11, 2014 - Chapada to Poconé
- Snorkeling with fish in river, float with current
- Lunch at Cleber's place
- Drive to Poconé
- Dinner at Versao Brasilero Restaruant in Poconé
-
August 12, 2014 - Poconé
- Drive to SESC facility - stop en route to take pictures of birds
- Tour of SESC facility
- Butterfly house
- Picnic lunch in gazebo
- Lost phone at SESC
- Drive back to Poconé
- Student presentions in classroom
- Frisbee and soccer with kids
- Dinner at Orphanage
-
August 13, 2014 - Poconé to Jaguar Lodge / PER
- Breakfast at hotel
- Stop at grocery store in Pocon&eacte;
- Drive out Transpantaneira Highway - making stops
- Stop for Seriema
- Araras Lodge
- Walk out to and climb Monkey Tower - howler and capuchin monkeys, marsh deer
- Lunch at Araras
- Tour of facility by Akhila Krusic
- Head to PCER
- Mating jabiru storks
- Silhouette of jaguar in truck lights
- Check into Jaguar Lodge
- Dinner at PCER
-
August 14, 2014 - Jaguar Lodge; PCER
-
-
August 15, 2014 - Jaguar Lodge; PCER
- Walk down road to Selso's farm - farm animals
- Breakfast at PCER
- Walk in the woods - timamous and trogons
- Student talks - #3 Matt- Jaguar, #4 Megan - ocelot
- Evening, night drive - beautiful sunset
- Observations on color
- Ethan returns with Maha, groceries, Sarah's suitcase, my phone!
-
August 16, 2014 - Jaguar Lodge; PCER
- Breakfast at Jaguar Lodge
- 7:30 departure
- Drive down to Porto Jofré
- Stop in Campo Jofré by great-horned owls
- Talk by researchers at Panthera.com
- Walk out by giant waterlilies
- Late lunch at PCER
-
August 17, 2014 - PCER to Cuiabá
- 6:00 am meet-up for walk
- Girls discover bat in their room
- Dinner in Poconé
- Continue on to Cuiabá
- Stay at D'Luca Hotel
-
August 18, 2014 - Cuiabá
- Stay over at D'Luca
- Breakfast at hotel
- Transport by cab between clinics/ hospitals
- 4 clinics to get rabies immune globulin and rabies vaccine
- Late dinner at D'Luca hotel
-
August 19, 2014 - Cuiabá to PCER
- Breakfast at hotel
- Class discussion in the lobby
- Drive to Poconé
- Lunch in Poconé
- Drive back to PCER
-
August 20, 2014 - PCER
- Piranha fishing
- Horseback riding through gallery forest with Seso
- Late afternoon/evening drive to Tito's families fazenda
- Spotlighting on the way back
- Dinner at PCRER including piranha consumé - very salty
-
August 21, 2014 - PCER
- Students went to Cuiabá to get second rabies booster
- Breakfast at Jaguar Lodge
- Walk to bridge for sunrise with Brazilian students
- Gallery forest walk with Emma and Tito - in search of tinamous and trogons
- Student presentations to Brazilian students
-
August 22, 2014 - PCER to Flotel
- Walk to bridge for sunrise
- Drive to Porto Jofré
- Hyacinth macaws in tree by dock
- Fast boats to Flotel - one for us, one for our luggage
- Afternoon boat drive
- Dinner on Flotel
- Talk on upper deck by Charles Munn
-
August 23, 2014 - Flotel
- Breakfast on Flotel
- Morning boat drive
- Giant river otters
- Swimming in the river
- Student observations: edges
-
August 24, 2014 - Flotel, Cuiabá River
- 6:00 Breakfast on Flotel
- Boat outing
- Jaguar sightings with many other boats
- Lunch on flotel
- 2:30 afternoon outing
- More jaguar sightings
- Fish jump in boat
- Observations - rhymed couplet or limmerick
- Third and last night on Flotel
-
August 25, 2014 - Flotel to Ecoa
- 6:00 am - Third and last breakfast on the Flotel
- 6:42 am departure - boat outing
- San Lorenzo River
- solitary female howler,
- LOTS of caiman - one with fish in its mouth,
- giant river otters - eventually all climbed into den
- capybara - baby with hiccoughs
-
August 26, 2014 - Ecoa
-
August 27, 2014 - Ecoa
- Breakfast at Ecoa
- Boat to park
- Hike to top of the Ridge - great views
- Refreshments at the house of the caretaker and his wife
-
August 28, 2014 - Ecoa to Cuiabá
- pre4:00 am wake-up
- breakfast at Ecoa
- 5:15 departure whikle still dark
- crash boat out of channel into wall of hyacinth
- arrive Porto Jofré
-
August 29, 2014 - Cuiabá
- Breakfast at hotel
- Fish market
- Aquarium
- Cuiabá
- Dinner at Lebanese restaurant - celebrate Emma's birthday
-
August 30, 2014 - Cuiabá to Sao Paulo and on to US
- Breakfast at hotel
- Pack
- Cab to airport with Cole and Christina - Ethan met us at the airport
Acknowledgements:
Thanks to Stanford, to all the people in BOSP, and to Peter and Helen Bing for making this trip possible
Thanks to Richard Roth for connecting me with Charles Munn and for helping revealing Emma's connection to Brazil and for out many dish walk discussions of the Pantanal and photography
Thanks to Charlie and Paulina for a fabulous experience on the Flotel.
Thanks to Maha and to the many Brazilians who helped us obtain rabies immuneglobulin and vaccine.
Thanks to the seminar students who shared this amazing trip with me and put up with early awakenings and long bus rides to experience the wonders of Chapada and the Pantanal
Thanks to all the interesting people we met along the way - some of whose names I know and many I do not.
These include Akhila Krusic (Araras), Silvia Kataoka (SESC),
Rodrigo Rascher, Robertito, Andre Moratelli, Cleber, N'hole, Anyore,
Suzanne and Bill O'Malley,
Suélen Leite,
Nick Garbutt (by email), Vic Banks (by email and phone),
Yuko Ohmori (en route), Jono and Beckie (en route),
-->And my very, very special thanks to Ethan, Tito, and Emma.
| Return to top of page
| Return to Bob's Home Page
| Bob's photo page
| Comments?
|
Last modified: July 13, 2019
Created: August 8, 2014 (from pantanal2011.html)
contact: siegelr@stanford.edu
All pictures are protected by copyright. Do not use without permission.