In
this picture you we are going down a river for about a month. You can see that
our dug out canoe is pretty full of supplies. Just in front of the white sack
you can see three army green back packs that we used when we went trekking
across land. We found the boat you see along side, lodged up on top of a rock 15
feet out of the water. It had most likely been washed hundreds of miles down
stream during the floods of the rainy season.
The bow man is the most important man in the boat. He must always be on a constant look out for underwater rocks and logs. If the canoe hits a rock or a log, it could be severely damaged and may not be able to be repaired, which would mean walking out on foot. Walking across a hundred miles of Amazon jungle is not a very pleasurable experience, I know I've done it.
Sometimes even the best get in trouble.
In
this picture we got ourselves into a lot of trouble. We were trying to pull our
canoe up this water fall, when the bow dipped in the water and the boat was
instantly filled with water. The angle of the picture does not show it but this
is almost a vertical waterfall. The pressure of the thousands of gallons of water
rushing over the boat was tremendous and made the canoe impossible to budge.
It took us all day to get the boat out.
