River Trails

After the GPS enabled web application I created seemed to work in theory it arrived the time to test it in practice. I decided to GPS mark all of the floating bars along the Tarumã Açu (which is the first ’tributary’ after leaving Manaus). This is probably not so useful really as floating bars, well, float around the river basically but it is like most enjoyable things in life: good while it lasts. I rounded up the usual suspects prepared the technology and off we set in Clives’ amazing GPS enabled boat, plotting bars as we went. We had an encounter along the way with a huge peacock bass which are great sport fish and fight like ninja’s when you hook one. Memories are unfortunately somewhat hazy after this so here are the waypoints in text and gdb formats. Maguires Guesthouse and Amazon Trekkers if you are up for it