We fly from Quito
(at 9,200 ft) to Coca (at 900 ft in the Amazon basin). That involves
gaining altitude for about ten minutes to get out of Quito and then
descending out of the Andes all the way to hot, sticky Coca which an oil
town that is on the Rio Napo. The Napo is a tributary of a tributary of
the Amazon, but it is still a half mile wide and three thousand miles
from the sea.
We are going to Sacha Lodge which is a two hour, high speed
boat ride downriver in a needle shaped boat that throws a high spray
wake. There is a driver at the outboard in the rear, and a spotter at
the bow, looking out for sandbars or floating debris in the coco colored
water. The lodge is set back from a small lake and access is only by a 1
mile hike from the river followed by canoe across the lake.
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