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El Rio Chagres
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The next
day we took a trip up the tributary and saw monkeys jumping On the
third day, we moved further up the river and anchored just outside the
small lake next to the dam with three other yachts nearby. We took the
dingy across the lake and landed on the beach in hope of taking a look
at the dam and visitors centre… no such luck… we were stopped within
five minutes by a passing polices patrol pickup and sent back to the
dingy (but not after they had taken our names and addresses, and joined
by some more police men who stood in the background glaring at us).
Whilst driving back across the lake we spotted a suspicious looking rock
by an island- it was moving… After taking a closer look we saw the
telltale eyes and nose of a crocodile just beneath the surface… we upped
the revs and kept our limbs out of the water after that.
We went on two small trips into the jungle and saw more monkeys, capybaras and enormous hanging termite nests. The following morning we woke up and were startled to see a sloth sitting in a tree on the opposite bank… we quickly raced over in fear that it would move before we got to see it properly. We watched it for a while from a distance and it seemed totally disinclined to show any signs of seeing us, so we moved in a bit closer… no response… finally we stopped the dingy right underneath its tree to watched it scratch itself, yawn, stretch out, and fall asleep on the branch! This
brought it back to us that, yes, we were sitting in a Jack |