When Does a Fish Need an Umbrella
Bonito ("Pretty"), was on our way from the Pantanal back to Campo Grande. We weren't planning to go, but it came with such glowing recommendations from everybody we met in the Pantanal, we could not resist. Snorkeling with hundreds of fresh water fish, underwater springs, and a huge, leafy crater where macaws come to spend the night. Come on! What could be better?
Hm, well... Better weather, for one! It was unfortunate, but the only day we spent in Bonito was a wet one. At first, it actually wasn't raining, but it might have as well, since we spent the first part of the day drifting in "shorty" wetsuits down Rio Prata floating over underwater springs bubbling up in fountains of sand and surrounded by hundreds of fish that made me want to have an underwater housing for my camera. Another guy from our group actually had one, but he wasn't very good in taking pictures with it.
The second half of the day we spent at Macaw Hole. We just started the walk around the crater, when a downpour has forced us all back into the gift shop/ticket counter to get the rain coats. While waiting for them, a little girl has asked me, with her father's help, for my most and least favorite animal. I was replying that so far I am most impressed with toucans, but spiders have been and probably always will be my least favorite, when Shurik came to steal me away as the people in our group have found no other but a tarantula that, like the rest of us, has come under the roof to hide from the rain. It took me a while, but I am proud to say I held it and now don't have to do it ever again. Hopefully.
Hm, well... Better weather, for one! It was unfortunate, but the only day we spent in Bonito was a wet one. At first, it actually wasn't raining, but it might have as well, since we spent the first part of the day drifting in "shorty" wetsuits down Rio Prata floating over underwater springs bubbling up in fountains of sand and surrounded by hundreds of fish that made me want to have an underwater housing for my camera. Another guy from our group actually had one, but he wasn't very good in taking pictures with it.
The second half of the day we spent at Macaw Hole. We just started the walk around the crater, when a downpour has forced us all back into the gift shop/ticket counter to get the rain coats. While waiting for them, a little girl has asked me, with her father's help, for my most and least favorite animal. I was replying that so far I am most impressed with toucans, but spiders have been and probably always will be my least favorite, when Shurik came to steal me away as the people in our group have found no other but a tarantula that, like the rest of us, has come under the roof to hide from the rain. It took me a while, but I am proud to say I held it and now don't have to do it ever again. Hopefully.