The Morning on the Suriname and Commewijne Rivers

From the hotel, we went by taxi the short distance to the landing on the Surname River at Leonsberg. Our transport was a covered motorised pirogue.
We saw a pod of dolphins, and then frigate birds and pelicans. There were scarlet ibises and other waders on a mudflat.
We disembarked to walk round a village of Guyanese fishermen.
Our river journey continued for an hour alongside mangroves and rainforest which were populated by lots of snowy egrets but not much else apart from branches with tropical kingbirds, herons and a roadside hawk.Read more