Amazon - Day 4, part 3

Steven picked us up and took us down to the river, we got in to the boat and headed off towards a quiet part of the river, Stephen tried his luck at some fishing with a little home-made rod but didn't have any luck, it did give us a chance to enjoy the wildlife and the sunset though. We paddled back from where we were and headed to Isla del cacao, as we did we passed anumber of people coming back from some afternoon fishing, we stopped a few and had a look at what they'd caught, among them were Pirañas and othe nasty looking things.

We arrived at Isla del cacao and got out of the boat, Isla del cacao is a new island that has formed over the last 10 years or so, thats the thing with the Amazon, it changes all the time, becasue it's such a massive river you get lots of islands forming and moving all the time. Rice is now grown on this island and the 2 huts you can see in the photo are only used when the rice is harvested. We got back in to our kayak and headed home, all the time being overtaken by really old men, I know we had 3 people paddling but I told myself it was probably more to do with the power to weight ratio than a lack of paddling skills on our behalf, I didn't belive it for a second though, for the people of Puerto Nariño this is every day transport, we saw children as young as 6 paddling and the only people with them were their younger brother and sisters! We headed back to the hotel where we got ready for dinner, had dinner, after dinner Steven met us for a beer on what was our last night in Puerto Nariño.