cayucco approaches. Nicolas and his father with Pascale and Francoise are already on board.
Climb cautious about this canoe carved by hand in a single tree trunk, whose stability seems equal to that of a bottle.
It is about six feet long boat with an outboard motor 15 hp. The captain tries to reassure us by saying that the fund is more often and so ensures the set-up but the doubt remains.
will board and Daniel Biserka with son Alan and head toward the opposite side of the bay. As usual drive to an unidentified point along the shore uniformly covered with mangrove. Approaching the mouth feel
the river, which was to be the Rio Mandinga, but because of the scarcity of water has been neglected in favor of that I can not remember the name.
Once, Breda and the captain raised the engine and rowing with his stick, very effective technique on the sea floor.
herons and white herons are laid on the shore and often we hear the shrill singing of parrots.
But our goal are the crocodiles.
animals are shy and cautious and we need to see them try to get close to the expanses of earth and sand without making a sound.
We see several tracks, but nothing more.
Armed with my D2 I scan zoom like a telescope when ... Here it is!
A monster standing on the bank is not aware of our arrival.
continue to take as we approach, but even the noise of the camera looks like a roar in the silence of the forest.
Soon we feel and glides into the muddy water.
He stays for a while 'on the surface and we can admire the perfection of its adaptation to the environment river. It moves easily and virtually invisible. The only parts that protrude from the water surface are the nostrils and eyes.
A real hunting machine!
We will see three in all the way to the beach beach where we stopped for a snack. Nothing on the way back along which we crossed several cayucchi motor that went back to the village which is located a few miles inland.
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