Naomi’s Jungle:
On the first day when we swam in the black water lake I was a bit nervous because it was filled with piranhas, but when I got in and started swimming I thought it was fun. There were also needle fish and caimens in the water too. I had a mosquito bite on my toe and because I scratched it a lot it started to bleed and a piranha bit my toe – it hurt. You could see the piranhas jumping out of the water catching flies.
We went fishing for piranhas a couple of days later and I managed to catch one. It was slimy, sticky, very, very wriggly and it had tiny razor sharp teeth. I asked the chef to cook it for my dinner and so I got my revenge. There was not a lot of meat and it did not taste of much and it had lots of bones. It’s skin was very crispy and it had a long spine.
Nasty Piranha...ha ha ha, I'm going to eat YOU!
Melody and her River Turtle:
While we were in the jungle I found a tiny baby river turtle – it was small and cute. It hatched in the day but it was supposed to hatch at night so it was lost. Our guide Daniella said, “We should not rescue it, because it’s nature and we should let it get eaten”. But I thought it was sad, so I rescued it anyway and put it back in the river so it would not get eaten.
My tiny turtle
…And here is a link to a video of some of our favourite bugs that we saw.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivcSREHcd1g
That will teach the Piranha to bite you Naomi just a shame it did not taste that good !!
Love the little turtle you rescued Mel well done chicken for putting it some where safe.
(( Grandad can’t stop singing to the ugly bug ball music ))
Lots of love Grandma & Grandad xxxx
Amazing video, thanks for sharing it with us! Love the music lol
Just wanted to say “Hello” to you all and your adventures just seem to be getting better and better!! John, maybe National Geographic need a new reporter!? Miss you all, take care Rachael, Russell, Ben, Jack & Holly XXXXX