The fifth day’s excursion featured piranha fishing, which is only performed by tourist. This is due to the high cost associated with piranha fishing, bait is chicken meat. I was really excited though to catch some fish and to try it. But first we had to arrive at our location, and this involved more bird watching. But today was a little different, we had some school supplies to give to local children. I was also excited to see and meet the locals. But first the wildlife that we encountered that day. As always, I do not know the names of most of these birds so I will refrain from attempting to remember.

We saw one local woman doing her weekly chores, which is similar to modern day. This is except that the clothes are hand washed by the river.

And here are some of the lucky local kids that received the school supplies. They were very ecstatic!

I really liked this tree beside the river front, which had some nests hanging from it’s limbs.

And off we were to catch some fish. It is somewhat different type of fishing, requiring you to slap the water prior to releasing the line. I was able to catch around 8 fish, but I’m not going to brag. These fish are equipped with some massive teeth which are very frightening.

Marisa, Melody’s littler sister ,was able to catch a fish. Too bad it was a baby and we had to catch and release.

Melody’s mom was also fortunate enough to get a bite.

Melody was getting frustrated with a lack of hooking up with a piranha, but she still had a wonderful time.

Another local family, which we donated some more of our supplies to.

Melody with the boat’s dinner.

A long day’s work requires some Amazonica, local brew.

The next sequence is of a hawk looking for prey, baited by one of our piranha.

And the last of the supplies were given to these lucky individuals.

A local man washing his clothes, I love the kindness in his eyes.

We had our daily siesta and returned on another excursion that night. This time encountering an iguana.

It was also cool to see some locals on the river. We saw this makeshift boat carrying a bunch of bananas. The locals were riding down to the large town of Nauta to sell both their boat, made of balsa wood, and the bananas they carried.

Other locals loading bamboo for sale probably in nearby towns as well.

Then there was this kid, riding on a propaganda boat, trying to promote a mayor for the local elections.

We also saw a sloth, which was finally close enough to get a decent picture of it in its habitat.

A flock of birds that flew overhead, I don’t know why I like this photo so much.

Local village watching us float by.

Another Caracara, this time putting on a show.

The lone tree.

And then we just enjoyed the sunset. It was beautiful. I had never seen a sun so large and blood red.

Our Piranha dinner, served by none other then Pepe.

And a spotted owl butterfly on the floor of our boat.