| Photographs - Page Three |
| The Amazon River town of Iquitos. Our flight from Lima, Peru, landed here and this was our port of embarkation for La Esmerelda. |
| A pond well populated by giant lily pads. These lily pads are able to support the weight of a small child! |
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| Here we are fishing for piranhas. This is an activity which should be done very carefully. |
| Here are some of the piranhas we caught. We ate them later, and found them to taste like our own sac-au-lait fish, which is to say very good. The crew presented us with the cleaned skeletons of the fish heads, complete with razor-sharp teeth. |
| "Hanging basket" orioles nests in a tree next to where we moored for the night. |
| Giant Lily Pads. |