Kaieteur National Park Airport

Beautiful, bright orange birds – the Guyanese cock a rock bird – all over, but cannot take good shots of them from a distance thru all the branches and twigs. Miss my camera!

Near the waterfall, you can hear loud noises from time to time. If you carefully follow the noise to its source, you will be surprised! These are tiny golden rocket frogs. And they really have an amped up throat!!!

I wish I had my mirrorless camera with me. It was difficult to get too close to the frogs to take a picture.

This is the closest we can get to the Falls.

The view from here was even more impressive. We could not take enough pictures.

Our hike has three stops. This is the first stop. The hike thru the trees suddenly opened up to an area which gave an impressive view of the Falls. Looks daunting from here.

Yes, total waste of money. I even went to the supermarket yesterday to buy a bugspray.

I am in the Amazon rainforest. And yet, not a bug to be found!

Turns out these sundew plants are all over this area. They are carnivores. They trap all the insects and eat them up!!

This is clean water flowing – and yet it has that brownish color. The locals said it is all about the colors from the sediments and leaves in the rainforest the water picks up. Some suggest iron. Has to be some minerals – but cannot be just iron – I have not seen any stains left anywhere.

There are website that suggest that the water in Guyana has a lot of tannins – the same stuff that makes your red wine red.

Cheers, I guess?