Corrina's Travels..

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Some photos from Brasil..

James aka Crocodile Dundee holding a cayman in the Pantanal. These guys look like the real deal but they are totally harmless. I accidentally dropped one in our canoe and depsite being surrounded by the long legs of screaming giants it just scampered about and didnt bite. I particuarly like this photo as it looks like james is loading his gun, not holding a poor hapless and confused reptile.

James on Lopes Mendes beach, Ilha Grande (Big island) not far from Rio. Stunning pristine beach with nice baby learner waves for us L-plater surfers, plenty of the usual beach necessities to be found even at this more remote beach outpost: stalls selling cold beer, guarana, sandwiches, white sand, hot brazilian bodies..
James and I at Iguacu Falls, at the devils throat look out (on the Argentinian side) jaw dropping torrents of water bursting only inches away from the safety of our nice tourist viewing balcony.
At the falls still, this boat takes you under the actual falls- very exciting in a terrifying, drowning sort of way..
HIghlight of the Pantanal Jungle, our horseriding trek! they were half horse half donkeys but they were the best trail horses i have ever been on. The special technique of steering a horse with one reign by pulling it against the neck (ie if you want to go right push the reigns to against right side of neck) rather than pulling on the poor horses mouth meant they were very responsive to your wishes, unlike the usual jaded mounts you get on trailrides who are far more attentive to where the rear end of the horse in front is taking them rather than their ineffective passenger on board. we pretty much got to run the thing ourselves, going off for gallops at the end whenever we felt like it, sometimes to the dismay of our accompanying cowboy who got left a little behind..


OK thats all for now, more to come soon!

Merry Chirstmas to all and a happy new year!