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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JWN Andrewes" data-source="post: 1650269" data-attributes="member: 7131">20th November 1989A big boat came through today, from a long way down stream, somewhere beyond Captain Yossarian’s influence. Limoncocha? Yeah, we’re stopping there, hop on board. So it’s buenos dias Cap’n, and vamos! The conscripts and the people running the hacienda we’d stayed in both provided us with large bunches of bananas as parting gifts, and we were away, chomping our way back up the Napo, sitting high up in the prow of the unfeasibly long dugout (must have been one helluva tree when upright), on top of a crate of pigs (with whom we shared our bananas). From this vantage point we could watch the Ospreys, Herons and other sundry delights, best of which was my first (and to date only) Black Skimmer, standing on a sand bank. Awesome bird! Arrived at the village of Limoncocha mid afternoon, with not much time for birding as we had to prioritise finding digs for the next couple of nights, but managed a tick in the shape of a Yellow-browed Sparrow in some rank vegetation alongside a makeshift football pitch.James</blockquote>