We’re in the Pantanal!
The pool is not as nice here.
But that’s OK, because we’re here for some serious wildlife viewing.
The Pantanal is the wetlands area that covers part of Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia.
A lot of it is used for ranch land.
So it looks a lot like Alberta.
But the cows are a bit funny looking.
And there are a lot of termite mounds.
There’s also some other wildlife that we’ll see in a few days just not while walking around.
The wildlife hunting started before we even left for the Pantanal.
Do you see him?
He’s right there.
He was under our sunbed at the pool.
A local man came up to Kerri and said “lagertixa enorme” and pointed under our sunbed.
Kerri understood that perfectly, because she speaks Spanish, and it sounds just like “lagertija”.
So she went poking around under the sunbed trying to get a picture. See him?
There he is!
Then a staff member came to ask what she was doing, and she said “lagertija”!
And the staff member said “no English”.
So apparently Kerri can only listen to Portuguese.
Do you think she can actually speak Spanish?
Kerri then said “animale enorme”, and the staff member looked alarmed.
He was only actually big compared to the other lizards at the pool, which were all too fast to get pictures of.
Kerri is not going to try to speak any more Portuguese.
We are having some trouble getting set up to upload pictures taken with a real camera, which includes our intended goodbye pictures.
But even if we weren’t, we wouldn’t have many pictures yet, other than the ones of the tent in our hotel room.
Because like last time, we’re spending a few days taking it easy and getting adjusted.
But this time there are no surfing lessons, because that was painful.
And no Spanish lessons because Kerri thought her Spanish was better, until a Venezuelan at the mall started speaking Spanish to her and she didn’t even realize it wasn’t Portuguese. But that might be partially because she’s spent days trying to convince her brain not to follow “por favor” with “gracias” because it’s “obrigada” here.
And last time we were on a beach with waves and tide pools and pelicans and sunsets. This time the only waves are when it’s windy at the pool.
And there are only so many pictures of the pool you want to see.
We do sometimes go out into the city, and it seems nice, but it’s not a place you want to wander around taking pictures.
Tomorrow we go out into the Pantanal, where we will take about a million pictures a day.
But I don’t know if we’ll have the time or internet access to upload them. So you’re probably going to have to wait a while. Sorry.
We went for Brazilian BBQ as our first outing after a long day of travel to get part way to the first starting point.
In Brazil dinner is usually a little later, so we had the place almost to ourselves.
Even then there was no shortage of options, but we didn’t take any other pictures. We were very full by the end.
We are heading off on another big adventure, 10 years later.
More pictures soon.
