18th AugAfter a pretty good nights sleep. I ignore all the commotion the morning brings and sleep in til 10.30am. I think mike is ready to kill me as he just cant sleep and watching me being able to sleep so easily is very annoying! I went and had a shower, which is actually the highlight of my day as it is the one time when I am actually not overheating! I decide to ignore the fact that I am showering in river water, over the most disgusting and smelly toilet yo...

17th Aug Well after not eating the previous day, I was hoping for the usual roll for breakfast but was very mistaken. So when they started serving lunch at 10.30am we jumped into the que. When a boat has to feed over 200 people you would think they would make it buffet style so you dish up and then leave but no this is brazil! They let about 15 people sit down to eat and once they have finished about 15mins later they clear up and let the net lot in. We qued for ...

16th AugWe woke up dretched in sweat as it was so hot and decided to head out and try and find some breakfast. The only problem was that all they sold in this place was street food so our options were chicken and rice or chicken and rice even at 10am in the morning. I ended up just drinking a yoghurt drink instead. After packing up our stuff we had to carry it on a 15 minute walk in the midday heat down to the port. We managed to find our hammocks from the day be...

16th AugWe woke up dretched in sweat as it was so hot and decided to head out and try and find some breakfast. The only problem was that all they sold in this place was street food so our options were chicken and rice or chicken and rice even at 10am in the morning. I ended up just drinking a yoghurt drink instead. After packing up our stuff we had to carry it on a 15 minute walk in the midday heat down to the port. We managed to find our hammocks from the day be...

15th AugWe arrived in Santa Rosa around midday and after waiting ages to get off the boat we finally get to a police man who checks and then confiscates our passports. We were slightly worried and so followed him around for ages until he finally gave them to a local man who took us to get our passports stamped. We grabbed a couple of beers and bbq fish for lçunch with this wiierd dutch guy who tried to start a fight with a drunk local man. We managed to lose him...