Kayaking

One morning earlier this month, we got up around 5:15am to go kayaking while the sun was rising. This is the best time to look for animals, and the view of the sunrise on the river is spectacular.

Here is the sun just beginning to rise. I brought my camera to document the trip, but I kept in in a dry bag just in case. This was the easy part - downstream on the Suriname river.

This is the entrance to "Mama Kreek". It's called mama because it is the largest tributary to the Suriname River, and a lot of smaller creeks feed into this one.

Marelyn and I, checking something out on the side of the creek.



Happy to be in the creek, but it is also still really early. Note the high fashion life preserver and bandanna.

We had to duck under some parts on the creek, but Sergio went ahead of us all with a machete and cleared the way.

The pictures I took don't even begin to give justice to the beauty of the jungle. We stayed out on the kayaks for over 4 hours that morning, spending each moment in awe of the nature around us.