9/1 Horses & boat

Monday 9^th January    The horse trek and the boat ride

What a good sleep in a real bed with airconditioning.  Breakfast awaited us then off to the stables with some trepidation.  Brief instruction was, ‘the horses don’t speak English, so use the reins to steer them away from trees.  All had Portuguese names, so Tim named his one eared horse Steve.  All of us mounted them easier than we expected and off we went, slow and steady.   We managed to stop them trotting initially as it felt all wrong, but after a while we all became a little more confident with most of us slow trotting and a couple of the boys galloping on the steeds that still had some speed.  J’s horse trotted at walking pace and Chris didn’t want to trot at all. 

The steeds

All geared up

Here we go

Easy

Tim’s horse stepped in a hole and stumbled which caused Tim to do a very graceful emergency dismount.  Everyone fell about laughing, horse and rider ok, drinks and photos taken and we headed for home.  Lovely lunch, swimming, lounging in hammocks before preparing for our afternoon activity.

Tab, Luke, Helen & Jenny

Janine's horse

5 hour river cruise in a motor launch, saw heaps of animals but not the elusive jaguar, unless you count the footprint in the sand.

Jenny & Tim front. Helen & Tab rear

Capabari

Caiman

River view

Sit up punishment happen everywhere, even on a tinnie.  Don't say MINE

Fun in Caimen water.  Not for me

We saw the Jaguar foot print in the sand

Pretty

One of the many birds we saw

 J ended up with the knickers on her head after being set up by Tim.  This entrapment is beginning to ring sour notes and is not what this was intended to achieve. C had a word with Tim and we are going to talk more tomorrow, with the provisional interim agreement that there are some improvements that could be made.

More "Underpant wearers"

Koen

Tab - as headwear

and earlier in the more traditional way