Friday, we continued our way north-west towards the mouth of the Amazon river. We saw mostly brown fresh Amazon river water mixed with the the blue-green of the Atlantic ocean
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| They cleaned the deck of the back pool atrea early this morning |
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| Some color showing |
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| Calm sea thsi morning. This is the normal color of the Atlantic here |
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| We saw some Sargassum seaweed in the morning |
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| One of our guest lecturers talked about the Amazon forest and river. It is the second longest (thou he said it may be the longest based on a newly found tributary high in the Andes mountains in Peru) but by far the highest volume of water flow in the world. It has more volume than a total of the next 7 largest rivers combined. |
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| Some of the tributary rivers of the Amazon |
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| This map showed what parts of the river we would see in day tiem and night time |
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| Passengers learning and practising Samba drumming |
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| Water was sometimes brownish |
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| And other times blue |
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| We are approaching the mouth of the Amazon, We will enter the top brown channel First we had to sail over a massive sandbar (Norde Barr) at high tide before we enter the river. |
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| We were given a detailed map of the river |
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| After dark we could see brown water in the lights on the side of the ship. |
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