Day 2 in Manaus

Sunrise the next day. The river boats were already on the move...

 
Dean negotiated for a boat and driver for a few hours.

 
We'd been seeing these floating gas stations, but we got a closer look, because this was our first stop.

 
Birdwatching was our goal. We were rewarded. A Wattled Jacana and a Fork-tailed Flycatcher.

 
Yellow-rumped Cacique and a Yellow-headed Caracara

 
The plants were interesting as well.

 
That's a big legume pod. And a Wattled Jacana.

 
We chased this Capped Heron until we could get close enough for a telephoto shot.

 
The Ringed Kingfishers were nesting in the mud bank along the river. A Snowy Egret...

We loved watching this tree with the hanging nests of the Yellow-rumped Cacique.

A floating house...

Our driver took us to this floating restaurant, but not for a meal.

 
We walked through the restaurant and took this boardwalk to a wetlands on the other side of the trees.

The Amazon waterlily was on the list of things we wanted to see.

You can see the size of these leaves because the Wattled Jacana is not a small bird.

 
Here we have a new white flower, a day-old pink flower, and a prickly seed pod that can float.

 
A fruit and seed pods of a sapodilla tree and a beautiful Rock Hawk or as known locally, gavião-pedrês.

The back side of that restaurant... the laundry indicates that people live there.