IMAGES OF PREVIOUS TRIPS

Here are a few images of previous trips. I wrote more about our palm tours in a recent issue of 'Palms' - see: Henderson, A. 2000. Palms of the Amazon Ecotours. Palms 44(1): 25-28.

In the past we have used the 'Harpy Eagle' for our tours. Note the motorized canoe about to pull out from the stern. In 2007 we will use a new boat, the 'Dorinha'.

Captain Moacir about to do a spot of fishing, with the 'Harpy Eagle' at anchor in the background. Moacir usually has a few volunteers to accompany him - and they usually catch at least some piranhas!

Two of my favorite Amazon palms - Mauritia flexuosa in the center, surrounded in the background by Euterpe precatoria. Euterpe is the most elegant palm of the Amazon.

The giant Amazon water lily - Victoria amazonica. We saw this on our 1998 tour.

The 'meeting of the waters'. Near Manaus, our port of departure, the blackwater Rio Negro meets the whitewater Amazon river, and the two flow side by side for many miles without mixing.

The 2000 tour group - on this trip we went downstream from Manaus and explored the Rio Nhamunda - another blackwater river with a very rich palm flora.

The 2006 tour group - in front of a massive tree trunk on the Rio Negro.

The 1998 tour group - on this trip we departed from Tabatinga, in the extreme western Brazilian Amazon and travelled downstream to Manaus. We saw 58 different species of palm on this trip.

A typical scene along the banks of the Amazon.