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I'm happy to recommend our guide and boat owner - they really did a good job for us. I'm glad that you enjoyed the slideshow too. My buddy really did a good job.

From your area, Delta flys...

Married for almost 8 years - my Portuguese still sucks. I can order beer and get my face slapped though. ;)

You peaked my interest - I love all things Brazilian. I even married one. :cool: I want to retire there. I'm ready now...just not old enough to retire yet - just give me nine more years good...

You live in GA - and you make *me* jealous. I've lived in Baxley in the early 80's, Norcross in the early 80's and Norcross again in the early to mid-90's.

I would kill to live in the south...

*snicker* One of our guys got a bottle of cachaça - we made caipirinha on the boat. Boy - that stuff is inexpensive.

My pleasure.

The scientific name is "Victoria Amazonica". According to one site, they were described by British explorers in 1801 and was named after the British Queen Victoria.

The bottom...

Tough trip - especially since most of the immediate area is fairly swampy. The level of the Rio Negro was at a 56-year high and most of our kayaking was in the tree tops. The Amazon was much the...

Just read your report - that's some great stuff and the pictures were excellent. Thanks for sharing it.

Very cool. I'm headed to the gym (yeah - old guy on a fitness kick - just completed my 600th workout since July 2007!) but I'll be **** sure to read it when I get back. Very, very interested.

Wow - that's pretty darn cool. I found that if I was on the water early, the chances of seeing the gray dolphins was excellent.

They are impossible to photograph but if you use your...

The red ones are Long Haul folding kayaks and the green-decked one is a Feathercraft. They're both top-drawer folders that we took with us. That was the only stressful part of the trip - worrying...

Thanks for the kind words. We did catch a few piranhas and two of the guys ate theirs. I declined - they can be kind of nasty in terms of parasites.

No nets were necessary - the pH of the...

That's a four-foot electric eel that we caught. We didn't eat him but...someone did.

I'm the ugly guy on the left.

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It helps to have a guide there - you can get yourself into real trouble real quick. We'll go back in a few years and do an unsupported trip next.

Glad we didn't meet your relatives there. ...

I posted this in the Hennessy forum but thought others might miss it if it's buried there.

We got back from a riverboat/kayak trip on the Rio Negro near Manaus Brazil about a month ago - here...

We got back from a riverboat/kayak trip on the Rio Negro near Manaus Brazil about a month ago - here are some hammock-related photos.

While we slept in typical hammocks for the region while on the...

Thanks for the kind remarks guys. We're going on a trip on the Rio Negro next year and we'll take our kayaks. We'll sleep in hammocks again but these will be on a small, typical Amazonia riverboat...

Hiya gang - finished my trip and added details here.

I only had one small issue and I'm not sure if I can attribute it to the hammock or not - I lost feeling in my right shoulder. I thought...

Mike - check out F650.com - lots of current and past F650 riders in PHX. Check out Jesse luggage also - Al lives over in Glendale. I sold him my Dakar when I went to the orange side.

RAW - sorry...

I don't post much here but I do have a HH. I'll start a 10-day trip on the Alabama River leaving Montgomery AL on June 6th. I'll leave the river below Selma on June 15th.

If anyone from the...

Jimminy cricket - they'll let any FYYFF on this site. http://s3.amazonaws.com/advrider/naughty.gif

PS: (RAW - K7 from advrider here. )

PPS: If this offends anyone, trust me, RAW will not be...

Thanks JJ - that's what I was thinking also. I have a mummy size tent that packs down to nothing. I was thinking about some simple cams and such for rock climbing also... maybe I can hang one that...

Is it against the rules to post pictures here? :eek: ruh-roh - too late for me.

If you want to email them to me, it would be greatly appreciated. Just add an 'at msn dot com' to my username -...

Cool! Tell me something - how often do you come across a situation where hanging a hammock is difficult? Just curious...do you carry a bivy sack or something?

Just trying to find common ground and open a dialog with others who do something besides backpacking and camping! I've had at least one good comment already.

If I offended any horses, Texans,...

I posted these in another thread but thought the general population might like to see them. If you have pictures from hammocks you've seen in your travels, post them here.

In the Amazon, hammocks...

Thanks for the warm welcome - very much appreciated.

Let's see....
-Alan - I took some classes in a Necky but I don't recall the model. I'm 6'2" and it took a few attempts to find one that could...

Hiya gang - another newbie from the desert here. I've started a new hobby (kayaking) and after my first trip, I decided that it was time to try something different.

I've done backpacking,...