Sunday June 15th The chukalaka birds (the Pantanal alarm clocks) woke us up around 6am and we had breakfast. Our guide Flavio then took us on walking tour around the forest and wetlands around the Pousada. What an amazing trip. Like Kruger national park, the Pantanal is a bird watchers paradise! On the walk we saw, black faced night monkeys, Capuchin Monkeys, Toucans, red banded Manikin (Flavio told us he had been a guide for 13 years and had only seen a red banded Manikin 4 times so we were very lucky), storks, vultures, screamers, mutum birds and many other. Flavio is originally from the northern Amazon (Whakooshi tribe) and he told us a lot about how the indigenous people used the forest as it was their "god". Flavio gave Spencer the fruit of the Juniper tree which the indigenous tribe use as henna tattoo. So Spencer decided to rub the fruit on his thumb and nothing….an hour later and his thumb was blue! Don't worry Mum it’ll wear off (although I don’t think Spencer wants it too! We walked back to the Lodge to relax and have lunch and then in the afternoon we took a boat trip. The Boat trip is from the dock of the Pousada in a long thin dinghy. We headed out through the spread of water hyacinths that lined the shores via the Cuiaba river to Lake Santa Maria Rosa. The Pantanal floods every year and then slowly drains – we are here at the beginning of the dry season so the water is slowly receding so the land is teeming with fish and birds. We motored around the shoreline of the river and lake seeing hundreds of birds (tiger heron my favourite, hummingbird and woodpecker was Spencers). As we were on the Boat, rather than on land you are able to get closer to the animals who tend to flock to the shoreline. With the sun setting we headed back to the Pousada in the dark, dodging caimans and capybaras on the way – an amazing sunset capping off an incredible day. A delicious dinner at the Pousada and we then went on a night “spot light” boat trip. Similar to spotlighting at Wattlebank, we looked for the eyes of the Caiman (they are dark red). The sky was full on stars (the Southern Cross right above us). Back to the Pousada and we both collapsed into bed.