The Lake

Time spent yesterday trying to upload photos unsuccessfully means a belated entry in the blog. During the entire time I have been resting at Posada Amazonas, I have been sharing the lodge with many staff members and a group of at least 10000 8th grade students from a private school in Lima and their teaching staff of about 1000 Australians and New Zealanders. One of the activities that I was allowed to participate in yesterday was a visit to The Lake. After I and about 200...ok, 15...students along with a guide from the Posada jumped into a dugout motor boat, we made our way noisily upstream on the Tambopata to a muddy landing where we offloaded and hiked through a forest where my flash was only need half the time to a lake.
We were treated by the guides to a paddle trip around the lake where I saw many new birds, most of whose names I now forget, unfortunately. Maybe you´ll recognize them by the photos. But that´s another story. The highlight was fishing for parahnas. I´ll let the photo tell the story there too. Tricky little fish who know how to carefully nibble around the hook to get all the bait without getting caught!