We need it! How sweet it is!

Oropendolas

Hammocks for birds.  They swing about in the winds with the greatest of ease and safety.  Constructed by the female oropendolas.  Photo taken on road to Bosque Santa Lúcia. 

Palm trunk

Amazing dichotomy 

Cicada - exoskeleton - stock image

Pequeno Museu do Bosque Santa Lúcia

Stock - Gustavia agusto

Reception Center

Garage and entrance to Reception Center at Bosque Santa Lúcia - in greener days!

Rain, at last!

Jabuticaba

Poço Branco - Bosque Santa Lúcia

Distances

Distances from Bosque Santa Lúcia - Santarém - Pará - Brasil

Caladiums before the drought set in

Tajá

The drought continues

Assucena flower

Scarlet Ibis - Belém

Born dustless

Six months without a drop of rain on a dirt road produces a lot of dust.  This flower, Lilly family, is a "new-born", thus fresh and dustless.

Desert Tour?

Not a drop of rain since July of this year!  It's enough to make me cry!

Howler Monkey

The howler monkeys are screaming, where's thee rain?  Six months without a drop of rain.  At least the howlers are equipped to get away from the dust of the road and they find food in one form or another up in the trees.

Wild fig tree and fruit on the ground.

Footbridge reconstructed

The dry weather left our footbridge at Bosque Santa Lúcia high and dry, so we took advantage of the situation to reconstruct all 42 meters of it.  It's been ready for nearly 6 weeks but no rain to inaugurate the structure.  It connects the reception center to the main forested area at the Bosque.  There are times towards the end of the rainy season when the bridge is complely under water.  I've rebuilt it at least five times over the years.  This latest construction is the work of our caretaker, Clelson Teixeira ands brother Clei.