Kevin Barnett, Regis Opferman & I just returned from an awesome trip in the jungle of Peru. We went down with Dick Bartlett & Margirita Tours & stayed about 100 miles down the Amazon from Iguitos. What a freaking blast. Snake hunting day & night, fishing, kayaking, swimming in the river & everything else you could imagine. There were about 14 of us looking for reptiles full time & the only boas found were a couple ATB's & one beautiful little Rainbow. Contrary to popular belief, boas are very few & far between even in pristene jungle. Devon & Co. have 16 or more trips between them all a minimum of 2 weeks & have only found 2 B.c.c. We did give it our best though & found plenty of other species most commonly Fer-De-Lance. I'll post a few pics tonight & if anyone would like to see more, feel free to look through my photo album at www.picturetrail.com. Under visit an album at the top right, type in LeeBarrie with no spaces & go to the 04/05 peru trip album. More pics will be added in the following weeks. Also, Kevin should be adding his pics soon to the ectothermics web page.



If any of you ever get a chance, try Peru out it really was a serious blast.



Lee



P.S. We bought this little boa in a market in Iquitos & released him downriver.

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