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Our river cruise took us to the Bertoni House. This is the original home and workshop of naturalist (taxonomist) and wilderness settler Moises Bertoni, now kept as a museum by the Paraguay park services (on the Paran� River just south of the confluence with Rio Iguasu). The Rainforest. (You can click on the thumbnails to view the actual images which are larger and of higher resolution.) |
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Moises Bertoni and his wife raised 13 children here, and it served as post office and emergency medical services long before roads were built into the area (travel was by river). |
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Walking the plank: from our boat to the beach below Bertoni's house. |
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Samples, work table. |
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Walking back to the boat through grasses. |
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Monkeys: If you look carefully at the starry-branched tree, along the more horizontal right-hand branches, you will find two monkeys (look for a blondish tail hanging down). They are black howler monkeys (although one is brown). These were in the rainforest adjacent to the Argentine Estancia Santa In�s. |
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Houseplants in trees: Philodendrons, which we are told bear an edible fruit (smelled a little like pineapple + peach). |
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A butterfly sampler. The black & orange ones are blurry, alas, but you can still see how bright they are. The "88" butterfly is blue and black on the top of its wings! |
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Tree ferns. |
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