Swimming with pyrannah

vie making a bag
Originally uploaded by Cameron/Duff.

Vye and his son Fabian were our Hoarani guides who made sure we didn´t get lost in la selva, although one morning Vye had to guide me back to camp with owl calls after I got turned around when going to the bathroom. In this picture he is making a bag which we eventually used to carry pyrannah back to camp after fishing in a lagoon (just for the record I took this picture). Pyrannah tastes really good, it just has a lot of bones. Contrary to movie images, they don't attack. Some say they attack when they smell blood, but i watched people cleaning pigs in the river turning the water red where they stood, and no one was bit. I swam in the river every day, and i watched five year olds swim across the whole river to visit the rest of the village on the other side mutiple times a day with confidence.