Girls & Guides

So we did spot the elusive pink dolphins, but they're a little different to your average ocean dwelling dolphins.  They're quite shy and hard to spot in the black waters of the rivers and lagoons here.  They have no dorsal fin either so you can't really spot them until they surface, and they really don't surface much.  So when we did spot them we couldn't get to close because we weren't sure where they'd pop up next.  We paddled around after them for a while.  Claudia & I would have been happy to chase them around all day trying to get just one decent photo, but it wasn't to be :(

The best I could do :( sneaky dolphins.

The guides on these tours in Ecudor have been really good, except when they think it's a good idea to carry a tarantula around your small canoe.  I'd prefer a caiman any day and was pretty close to jumping in when the guide on the other canoe started dropping this huge-arse spider all over everyone.  They're usually local to the area, really well informed and seem to love their jobs.  However, they seem to have some pretty crazy schedules; things like 22 days on, 5 days off or 6 weeks on, 2 weeks off; sounds just crazy to me.

Back in Lago Agrio, after the jungle tour and waiting for the night bus, Dagma (a friend from the tour) & I were accosted by some young Spanish girls in need of some poor sucker for their english homework.  Dagma kindly offered my services.  So the three girls wanted to interview me, asking questions about where I'm from and what I've been doing in Lago Agrio in english.  And they wanted to video it - I told them not a good idea as I hadn't done my hair (for at least a week) - but they were not to be dissuaded.  So now there are these poor Ecudorian students watching a video of me and thinking they're learning English when they're really just getting some bad Australian :(