Final Days

Today I pushed David out the door. We went and saw the pink dolphins where are river comes into the Amazon. We were on an actual split half of the Amazon for about ten minutes. I would like to see the Amazon in one big piece which is not possible in my current situation, but I can see me coming back to delve into the deep unexplored jungle far away from here where there is no jungle, and maybe back to this river.

Anyways there were lots of dolphins by the dock. We saw lost of them. To back up a little I touched one yesterday at a touristic zoo beach place just outside of town. I jumped in the river to swim with them but they are scared of people. We then took a boat up a river, walked through a nieghbourhoodish jungle area where we stumbled upon a cheesy Indian village setup for tourists. After coming back we ate lunch which was good. In desperation to get out I caused David to dump the vital siesta to go to a Coca Cola like pool lake thing where we swam with David and his two uncles and also made sand castles. All of Davids uncles are very young. I think his mom is teaching agriculture, and his dad cooks fish in the market. His dad has taken four days off to cook for us. David is learning to work at a lodge some place which a rotarian hooke up for him. David is the oldest of the grandkids. In the house we have his grandparents uncles aunts and cousins.

We may go to Nauta tomorow which is a ways away on another river which means we are finished with the amazon river. We have one day left. I am sad and do not want this trip to end. The day I get home is the day I start working, which will probably not end forever. Oh well. I will see you soon

Shawn

Lost Camera

We took an overnight bus to Pisco from Arequipa. We took a boat tour to some islands were we saw cormorants, boobies, penguins, and sea lions. We then took an overland tour of desert cliffs. That is where things went wrong. Somewhere on the way back to Pisco I lost the three hundred dollar camera, all the pictures from this trip, and a few pictures from home. We spent several hours trying to find it by bactracking and talking to all the drivers we traveled with. I have now lost our Peru book, wallet, camera, and have almost lost our passports. Wow.
Shawn

Condors

We took an overnight bus from San Pedro de Atacama to Arica. From Arica we traveled through the boring desert cost of Peru for most of the day to Arequipa. In Arequipa we bought tickets to Iquitos then took a bus to Colca Canyon. We stayed the night and at four this morning we took a three hour bus to Cruz del Condor where you can see the largest bird in the world up close in the deepest canyon in the world. We only stayed a half hour and saw the condors in the distance before they got close because dad did not like it before returning. We leave for Arequipa in about an hour. We are leaving the Andes and Southern Peru for good and are going to Lima then the Amazon. Maybe we will see some pengiuns on the way.

Shawn