Day 3 Jan. 21- Exploring the Amazon Sapococha Lagoon

 

We start Early morning with a canoe ride to look for birds and monkeys - squirrel monikers , sockey monkeys,and lots of birds.  We then come back for a walk through the area.  We find a coco orchard! Ecuador is a big exporter of chocolate. more on that later.

I can't tell you the name of the birds.  that unfortunately is not in my wheelhouse. I left for Evelyn and she had the very long lens!

I believe this is a squirrel monkey.

                            Squirrel monkey on the move and hard to get a picture.

                                      Lunch -only kidding!-this time

                                                            Coco - it is bitter

T                                                    his is coco before Celso opened it up

        Bats, my favorite..I didn't get bitten by these.  There were so many here, I only got a small section so i could zoom in.

                                    A home along the river

Our sundowner along the main river

                      

We are all tucked in for the night. Fortunately we have a fan this night.  It helps with those pesky little bugs.