Amazon - Day 4, Part 1

We had breakfast and waited for Stephen (Our guide whilst in Puerto Nariño) to arrive. Actually that might not be true it was probably more like, we had breakfast and Stepehen waited for us finish and get our things together, this wasn't because we were late, but despite being in a country that adopted the Spanish “Manana” attitude Stephen and probably everyone else in Puerto Nariño and possible the in Amazonia in general were different, they were on time or usually a bit early. I guess the reason for this is everyone's a fisherman and if you don't get up at 4am and go fishing, you won't catch your fish in time to get to market. In fact our previous guide already commented that he likes having groups of non-Colombians as when they agree to meet in reception at 8, they'll be ready in reception at 8. Any-hoo, back to Puerto Nariño! We headed off with Stephen walking along the neat paths, saying hello to everyone we passed, 10 minutes in to the walk and we then left the path and headed down by a small stream, crossed a small bridge that consisted of a plank of wood and headed towards the river. We'd told Steven the night before that we'd love to see pink river dolphins, despite the fact that we couldn't get to the lakes where we're most likely to see them because of the level of the water at this time of year he made a slight de-tour as this time of morning when it's quiet is a good time to spot dolphins. Sure enough walking along the river we spotted a couple of dolphins, not pink, but they were dolphins! Taking a photo of them is much harder than spotting them, unlike their trained cousins, who literally jump through hoops for you, they don't let you know where they're going to surface and when they do it's for no more than a second at a time.

We head along the river following Stephen, stopping every now and then for him to show us a plant, a tree or to say hello to some of the children in a kayak who's been out fishing or to get the morning shopping.