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Ed's Frog MessageBlog Archive5th August 2010 - The End in Sight 15th July 2010 - An Unpleasant Afternoon 1st July 2010 - Football Crazy Brazilian Towns... 17th June 2010 - Ricky Gervais and the Bible... 20th May 2010 - Caught with our pants down 15th April 2010 - How dangerous are jaguars really? 18th March 2010 - A Hungry Anaconda? 4th March 2010 - Ed's Rotten Arm 18th February 2010 - Paddling across the 'Meeting of the Waters' 4th February 2010 - Damming the Amazon 21st January 2010 - Dedication 7th January 2010 - Swamp Donkey 17th December 2009 - A Little Bit Scared 3rd December 2009 - Scratched and Confused 19th November 2009 - Oil Under the Jungle 29th October 2009 - Watch out for the CAIMAN! 15th October 2009 - On our own in the jungle 1st October 2009 - Trench Warfare 17th September 2009 - The Island of Food 3rd September 2009 - Food Dreams 27th August 2009 - Heavy packs and the search for fish
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3rd September 2009 - Food DreamsAfter a week of living and walking well on smoked/salted fish and tonnes of farine, Cho and I have started to run out of luck. We've only got 4 cups of farine left. Farine is the carbohydrate of the Amazon and is made from dried yucca roots. We tried to find somewhere to get more but after a day and a half in the boats we had found no houses or communities - so we deflated the boats to match our enthusiasm and walked back to where we'd left off walking. The plus side of the failed resupply trip was that we saw 8 giant river otters! Breathtakingly close and barking at us menacingly.
In short we have a quarter of a cup of farine each day per man for 8 days. We think the next community is 7 to 10 days away. We are smoking fish today and still have just over a kilo of salt but nothing else. Lunch was pirahna and some roots that I washed and boiled. No joke. Deep down we're loving it. Every minute. But our batteries are running low (hence the short blog entry) and our energy levels are at rock bottom. This next week will be a real test for us both. Join us on Thursday 17th September for the next update to find out how we got on… Don't forget to check out our Question of the Week videos - and send in your questions! |
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Ed
Stafford is an explorer. Like Captain Scott of the Antarctic and Sir
Ranulph Fiennes before him, he has a passion for discovering and
learning about the vast planet that we all live on. Today, so many of
the great expeditions have already been done by explorers of the past.
There are no longer many things that people can do and say, "I was the
first person in the world to do that!" 
