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Up the Amazon, part deux. Motor-kars to Mazan. Arrival at Santa Cruz. Our first night hike there.

River Transport	Sunday dinner perched on the window	The gang chills on the hurricane deck	Photo courtesy of Doug Kranich.
Photo courtesy of Doug Kranich.	Bus stop, so to speak	Statue of the blessed virgin	Arriving at the Mazan cutoff
			Goodbye Lorrie!
c'mon pig! get on the boat!	new boat under construction	dockside kitty-katz	Our last look at the Nenita
Tough little cargo truck	how to build a boat, Amazon-style (wished I could hang around this for a while)	traffic jam
	Caitlyn and Gerald		Jam cleared, off we go!
Exiting our moto-kars, Mazan quayside	Doug is ready for the next big thing	Mazan marketplace	Where is our boat?
			Looks like this family shopped in Mazan and are getting ready to boat home.
	fragrant flowers along the Rio Mazan	Flower closeup	The put-in for Santa Cruz
Doug does his Amos Burnside impression	Little feller came to greet us.	Santa Cruz perrito	Getting ready to hike in to Santa Cruz
Achiote (a cooking spice is derived from this)	Achiote	Down the trail we go	Heliconia sp.
Heliconia sp.	Don't touch these.
		Spike Moss - Selaginella sp.	Spike Moss - Selaginella sp.
Heliconia sp.	Heliconia sp.	Nobody said anything about any stairs....	Heading up the Rio Mazan to Santa Cruz. Photo courtesy of Doug Kranich.
Morpho sp.	Morpho sp.	Odd, waxy plant - Philodendron?	Daggerwing, Marpesia sp.
Unidentified butterfly	Mira Doctor, Ancyluris mira (Riodinidae)	We arrive at Santa Cruz	Basic accomodations
Wedge-tailed Earth Snake, Atractus latifrons, found dead on trail	Tomato (no, really!), Temenis laothoe (Nymphalidae)	Tomato, Temenis laothoe (Nymphalidae)	Banana tree outside our tambo.
Amazon Whiptail, Ameiva ameiva	Dick inspects the dead Atractus	Unidentified nymphalid	Unidentified nymphalid in our tambo
Cookhouse - Dining Room - Photo Lab	Bachelor quarters	Tambeaux	Ameivas patrol this area.
Showers and toilets - frogs live here!	Doug exhibits some fencing moves.	Ameiva on Bug Patrol.	Santa Cruz.
Agathina Emperor Doxocopa agathina (Nymphalidae)	Tropical Buckeye, Junonia sp. (Nymphalidae)	Black and White Monkey Hopper, Paramastax sp. (Eumastacidae)	Fungus beetle.
Tambo sweet tambo.	Camp flora	Short hike on Mazan freeway with Nicole and Fatima.	Awesome grasshopper.
	Leaf-mimic Katydid.	Carnivorous katydid, Copiphora sp. (Copiphorinae)	Carnivorous katydid, Copiphora sp. (Copiphorinae)
Carnivorous katydid, Copiphora sp. (Copiphorinae)	Carnivorous katydid, Copiphora sp. (Copiphorinae)	Carnivorous katydid, Copiphora sp. (Copiphorinae)	Walking stick
Smoky Jungle Frog, Leptodactylus pentadactylus	Smoky Jungle Frog, Leptodactylus pentadactylus	Smoky Jungle Frog, Leptodactylus pentadactylus	Ogre-faced Spider

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