| Amazon Ecuador Album |
| Coca, Ecuador is located on a Amazon tributary, the Rio Napo. The elevation at Coca is 900 feet above sea level and it is located 3000 miles from where the river dumps into the sea. The river from Coca only drops 900 feet in the 3000 miles. There are no water falls in the 3000 miles and there are no bridges. At Coca the river is over a mile across. |
| Praying Mantis--there was plenty for it to eat! |
| Boa snake necklace. |
| A 12" rainforest spider. |
| Rainforest tree. |
| Amazon rainforest upriver from Coca, Ecuador. |
| Capybara (Portuguese), Carpinchio (Spanish) river rat. |
| Kids having an Amazon River mud bath. |
| An Indian Shaman using a blow gun. He hit the target from over 100 feet away. |
| The mode of travel for 30 miles up river to our lodge. |
| Our lodge. |
| The area market place is accessed by boat. |
| The area market place. |
| This Amazon family makes their living by panning for gold. Here they collect dirt to pan. |
| They place the dirt into a bin. The bin has a rug to catch the heavy gold. |
| They start washing the sand and stones. The lighter sand flows into the river. |
| They rinse the rug into the panning dishes. |
| They swirl the dirt away leaving the heavier gold. |
| The results of an hours work. |
| One of many termite hives. |
| Tarantula that fell on one of the group. |
| There were dozens of different spiders everywhere. |