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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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17th June 2010 - Ricky Gervais and the Bible...
We then started walking across the Amazon's jungle-covered delta. Five days in - and we've amazingly climbed to 71m above sea level. Amazing I say because Tabatinga (where we entered Brazil in April 2009) sits at only about 85m above sea level - and that is 2,000 miles to our west. Half an hour before sunset today and Cho and I hadn't seen a stream since 10am. We sat down on our Macpacs and contemplated sleep without washing, cooking or drinking. I had enough grease on my forehead to fry chips in and enough dirt down the back of my neck to grow sprouts. We were both hungry and very thirsty - the prospect was grim. The sky darkened and thunder announced the oncoming rain. We grinned at each other as if 100% pure morale had been injected into our veins. Our flysheets were up in seconds and our cameras and food emptied out of their dry bags to make impromptu reservoirs. We haven't had to collect rainwater for eight months but our drills were slick enough and the rubber bags were soon overflowing like garden fountains.
We've washed, cooked (soup and fried sardines washed down with a litre each of sweet milky coffee) and are now tucked up in our hammocks snug and smug. To keep ourselves distracted Cho's started reading the Bible again and I've downloaded a new batch of Ricky Gervais podcasts to listen to in my hammock. Slightly different methods of staying sane! Join us on 1st July for the next installment and don't
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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!" 
