At 5am, the jungle slowly waking, we hiked back to the river and quietly motored upstream as the mist lifted and the sun warmed our backs. We spotted caiman, dozens of birds and a family of giant otter - the rarest mammal of the Amazon - they grow up to 2m and there's only between 2 and 5 thousand left in the world. They fished and frolicked and made the weirdest barking noises.
We moored near a bank and tossed in our lines for piranha .. and waited ... and wiggled the bait ... and waited .. bloody elusive little buggers. We only caught one - well technically Jason also caught one but it fell off - and as I was distracted from my filming responsibilities (so sue me - I was in the AMAZON - how can you not be distracted ... there COULD have been Anaconda ..) ..we only have Belinda's word for it .. but no proof. I did get some good shots of the landed fish though - toothy little critter ...
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