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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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27th August 2009 - Heavy packs and the search for fish
From there we headed east again and this time on our own. With 36kgs each, Cho and my pace was slow and we walked an average of 5km a day for the first few days. Imagine a place that has twisted gnarled roots, thick, razor wire-like thorns, and mud that sucks you down into it. Then imagine not having any idea when it will finish. In an hour? Four hours? Four days?  In order to save weight in our packs we are not carrying protein at the moment (no tinned tuna or corned beef!), so we need to find rivers to fish. The problem recently has been that there have been very few rivers and when we do find them they are too small or dried up to contain fish. This is because the water level is dropping rapidly in the Amazon at this time of year. For a couple of days we ate only farine (made from yucca), sugar and milk powder. It kept us going but what we really needed was a bigger river or an oxbow lake to try and catch some fish to eat for supper. Our tummies were rumbling! Today we crossed a big lake and have made camp at the water’s edge. We put the net out and you’ll have to watch the following video to find out what happened...
The one slight concern with fishing in the oxbow lakes are the caiman! These are the crocodilians of South America and they can grow up to 20 feet long.  Join us on Thursday 3rd September for the next update. 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!" 
