The Amazon Jungle!

Hello from the Amazon, we arrived safe and sound on wednesday the 18th October and after some lunch in Peurto Maldonado headed down river to the Taricaya Research centre. It took about an hour, and then got given the tour. Wé´ve got our own room which is nice.
Our working day consists of getting up for breakfast at 7.30 and at 8 we go onto one of the projects running like planting flowers, siting on a platform and record the wildlife seen, feeding the animals (spider, night monkey, white and brown capuchin, tapir, pecary (wild pig), ocelote, Jaguar, and quite a few birds. They should be released at some point and are ongoing rehabilitation and that ends at about 11. Three days a week we get up to do early morning observations, these start at 5.30am and run till 7.30am. Yesterday Rachael even got to walk the Ocelote, an unusal experience shall we say.
Lunch is at 12 and work starts again at 3.15 - 5.15. We carry on with the projects then including maintainance, flower picking and doing surveys while walking the trails.
Dinner then is at 7 and inbetween these activities we just try and get to grips with the many different types of birds.
We have seen about 25 not including the cattle egrets, white throated toucan and 7 black vultures coming into town. Our boat ride into town took about 2 hours as we were going againt the current but got here in the end.
We don´t really work at the weekends but we come into town and stay the night here and go back tomorrow afternoon.
By the way it has rained all the days we were here but only short thunderstorms so we´ve managed to see lots of stuff.
We hope everyone is all well back at home, we miss you very much
Love Rachael and Lee