I was this close??!!! I do not use telephoto lenses. I just found this photo of a PRETTY LONG snake I encountered in the Peruvian Amazon while working with Earthwatch performing wildlife surveys in Lago Preto. He surprised me as I walked by; I stop…
Dom and Tessa found the tarantula on the plank and after three days, Tessa was determined to hold it. Scared to death of them, it was a good 15-minute inner psyche battle to do it and a personal victory of appreciating ALL the creatures in the Amazo…
The Hairy Mygalormorph. Now that doesn't sound so scary, does it? The name makes the tarantula sound like a kind grandfather. Which it is. They've been around for millions of years and haven't changed much in that time. Many use their…
I don't care I am wearing the ugliest men's work shirt, i love this photo more every time I see it. Mirko (back), Tessa and Dominic (thumbs up!) were great Amazon-mates, excited about everything and willing to do anything even when that me…
Why do we use red dye No. something we can't pronounce when Mom Earth supplies so many tiny miracles all the time? A visit to his village and just 2 minutes in, Wilder cracked open an "achiote" fruit, which has long been used to colo…
After four hours from the final port town of Nauta, the Maranon River forks and the Yanayacu gives way — a calmer, narrower river in the Peruvian Amazon with bright green reeds nestled on either side. Another half hour, and the first thatched-roof…
We are driving along in the tuk-tuk ... the small covered, wooden boats so prevlant in the Amazon, with a small outboard motor and put-putting along. We are on the Amazon, four hours from the nearest port, of Nauta, looking for pink dolphins that…
On the discussion of whether or not my hiking boots can be saved or need to be doused in gasoline and set on fire (of which I am the only one still arguing for saving) ... Me: "Well, they got bad when I fell into an anaconda hole up to my wais…
I'm out of the forest early but with some luck: the two scientists with whom I went three weeks deep into Lago Preto are in town. They returned from the field Sunday and presented a lecture on their new book about effects of climate change in…
