Walking the Amazon: Ed's Amazon Adventure Blog

The Story So Far...

Ed StaffordEd 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!" [more]
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1st July 2010
 

Do you like living in the rainforest?

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Ed has encountered venomous snakes, floods, electric eels, piranhas and hostile local tribes, one of whom held him for questioning about the murder of one of their tribesman.  The route is known for drug trafficking and illegal logging and white people are often feared and rarely seen in the area.

 

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Blog Archive

5th 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...

3rd June 2010 - Google Errors

20th May 2010 - Caught with our pants down

6th May 2010 - Cattle Ranches

15th April 2010 - How dangerous are jaguars really?

1st April 2010 - Polar Ben

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

13th August 2009 - In Search of Porto Seguro

2nd August 2009 - Looking for Dry Land

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18th March 2010 - A Hungry Anaconda?

Cho and I see a LOT of snakes. Some, like the pit viper are venomous, and very dangerous. Others, like the boa constrictors, have no venom, and use their bodies to physically crush their live food to death.

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Anaconda


The snake above came as a shock to Cho and me at first. Although we've always thought it was an anaconda (the largest constrictor in the world!) we'd never seen one like this before. So we asked our friends...

Steve Backshall, from CBBC's "Deadly Sixty" said, "Very unusual/boring colouration, and also abnormally thin for a green anaconda of that size. In all probability a female that hadn't eaten for a very long time."

Another friend, Goran Mihajlovic, from Colombia said, "This snake is an anaconda but really strange looking. For me it looks like a male, they're thinner and don't grow that big like females. The colour and the shape of the head is also very unusual."

So different opinions from the experts. I don't know which is right - male or female - but anacondas can grow up to ten metres long!

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For more about Ed and his Amazon adventure, visit www.walkingtheamazon.com.