Thanks to our wonderful boatman, Manuel, and his mates, we spent an hour with Maxime this afternoon, Wednesday 23rd September. If you’d asked me, I’d have said 20-30 minutes, but my camera clock tells me otherwise.
We felt the odd spot of rain and heard the odd distant rumble of thunder. When it came the rain was brief, but very hard. It passed as quickly as it had arrived, and we wandered around a little longer in the boat, thankful for a somewhat cooler temperature.
Yes, I’d have said ‘Kingfisher’ too…
… but it’s a jacamar, a rufous-tailed jacamar
Capuchin monkey
Black-capped capuchin monkey, to be precise
This afternoon’s Capybara
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What a magnificent pussy cat! I think she quite enjoys the attention. And on another subject – when I scroll to the bottom of the blog I am immediately offered train fares to Bath…
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Maxime, despite the spelling of the name, is a he! Some of our party thought it was a terrible name for a big male, but as I said on an earlier post, the first to find a new jaguar gets to name it – perhaps it was a French-speaking person.
Clearly you are destined to return to Bath by train. You know it well on foot now…
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Should have remembered the other pussycat is Bianca – fooled by the ‘e’ – and the fact that the girl who begs close to my local supermarket is called Maxine (the one who commented that she had seen me on telly in the 3Mobile ad!) Yes indeed, I could probably be a reasonable guide to central Bath now – but isn’t it spooky that Big Brother follows us into all areas? xx
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When I was in Brazil, I was getting ads in Portuguese on my tablet.
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Wonderful shots of the animals and birds but I really enjoyed your final photograph.
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Thank you Susan. To me it says ‘It’s a little cooler now.’
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Amazing pictures Venetia !
Barbara xx >
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Thank you Barbara. It was a pretty amazing experience!
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That jaguar looks as though it is thinking, “that’s a funny looking lot out there today”!
Beautifully marked animal though. Did you see one actually swimming Venetia?
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It was a funny lot! Technically, I didn’t see one swimming, but keep following and you will see a video…
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A beautiful animal and a privilege to be be able to see it thanks to you.
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It is a great pleasure to share these experiences.
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Wonderful close-ups, the markings have come out really well. No wonder the hour passed so quickly.
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It certainly did.
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