Article © Julian Dignall, uploaded January 01, 2002.
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Yours truly collecting Brochis and Amblydoras. |
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ScotCat's Allan James deep in the rain forest on the way to collect some small forest streams. |
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The Catfish Collective Top Row: Allan, Steve, Giles , Robin, Jools & a statue. Bottom Row: Alan & Chris. |
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An interesting statue in our Iquitos hotel. The fish is a large Doradid obviously headed for the nearest large pot. |
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Collecting in a flooded field not ten minutes boat-ride from Iquitos. We caught Dianema longibarbis and Pimelodus albofasciatus here. |
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Cautiously approaching a jungle creek. It appears only inches deep, but I will soon sink up to my thighs in clay mud. |
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A very dead armoured catfish found floating in a tadpole infested pool. |
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Doing the over excited thing where you photograph a pleco that no one can recognize because it is out of water. |
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The onset of dusk brings a mist rolling towards the lone canoeist in the distance. |
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Our home from home during the trip - the Amazon explorer. |
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Sun dappled Corydoras elegans habitat. |
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A very happy Jools and a fairly unhappy Corydoras elegans |
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Chris Ralph shows a small Pterodoras caught on hook and line just outside Iquitos. |
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Lovely cold local brew. |
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Just after this jungle shot was taken a huge, round boulder came hurtling up behind me. Honest. |
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Allan James with his back to the camera catches another two C. elegans as I look on. |
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A seemingly standard stunning sunset. |
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The usual suspects leaving another exporters in Iquitos. |
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At an exporters in Iquitos, the colourful tubs each contain a large group of one species of Corydoras. |
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C. elegans & Y. truly |
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Giles (apparently pronounced Gill-ees in Latin America) and a Tiger Shovelnose (Pseudoplatystoma sp. ) he found lying around in a canoe. |
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At the market in Iquitos, those are salted Tiger Shovelnose (Pseudoplatystoma sp.) fillets in the foreground. |
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A spider we encountered in the garden of our hotel. |
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Iquitos taxi culture, NOT for the feint hearted. |
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Clare writing with an Amazonian backdrop while meandering up a tributary. |
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Meandering down a smaller amazonian tributary. |
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Night fishing for Loricariids whose eyes light up reflecting torch light. |
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A recently caught Pirhana shows off its fearsome set of teeth. |
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Bright eyed and bushy tailed - Clare and a pet sloth. |
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The boats skiff - fully loaded with crew, nets and fish nuts. |
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The first night of three where we were visited by countless hundreds of flying insects. Night one was mayfly and the odd beetle or three. |
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Allan James showing extreme camera shyness in an Iquitos bar built by Mr Eiffel (as in the large Parisian tower...). |
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A Peruvian feast! The white pasta-like food bundles are strips of woven palm heart. |
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The amazon from the air - breathtaking. |
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Another seemingly standard stunning sunset. |
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A beetle we encountered on a jungle walk. |
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