Had a walk in the park. As we walked we could hear a noise that
increased in volume as we got closer. I was thinking a pond overfull
with croaking frogs and John was thinking of a machine harvester (that
had never been oiled) or Winton raceway (v8 cars) from a distance.
Suddenly we realized we were close and the noise was above us. We
then spotted a couple of monkeys.
They became aware of us and fell
into silence. One was very large and the other smaller, we guessed
male and female. We watched them for a while then continued to the
waterfall. When we came back the apes were still in the trees near the
track.
We met some of the biologists from the previous evening and told them where to find the apes. Off they went.
Half way back we heard the apes start up their racket again.
We got back to the vehicle and started to pack to make our way to the gate by 12:00hrs. The biologists arrived back, they didn't see the apes as they had found a large snake; and after prodding it decided walking was to dangerous and headed back.
Adriana and her boss
arrived and we showed photos and talked about our trip till John realized we had 5 mins to drive to the gate. Threw things
together, dropped the lid, and raced for the gate. We were 9 mins late.
Parked outside the park and had a sandwich for lunch and packed EC
properly.
The drive in places
was very pretty. We drove down an avenue of trees and at one stage
the road was lined with Hydrangeas.
Drove on orange most
of the way to Porto Alegre. There certainly are very strange and terrifying intersections here. With good luck we didn’t make any
false turns and arrived promptly outside the Sheraton. In our
concerted effort to arrive we had forgotten to dump rubbish, empty
toilet and a few other things.Got to park straight outside the hotel. Went out for dinner and ate at a vegetarian place. Fantastic food, lots of creativity. John tested the business room for call quality and the test went well with Loretta.