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When we emerged onto the shoreline of Rio Hondo on the tenth day Silverio swam across to find a type of wood for the raft. Standing across the river from him, with the forest canopy soaring over his head, I noticed how the cutting edge of the river allowed for a brilliant cross-section open-air view of the rainforest.
A couple days later I told the three men to stand on the riverbank while I crossed the river to get a photograph. Here they are, by the blue line, tiny under the giant trees and thick vegetation. Below is a photograph of strangulating vines around a tree. Eventually, after a mere hundred years, the vines will kill the tree. Final photograph is of the oldest tree we came across during the trek. Silverio estimated it is in the range of 600 years old. Justino measured it as 11 meters around at the base.
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