Stories from the Amazon - Exploring the creeks of Rancho Ranan
One weekend that we spent on our ranch, my brother John and I decided it would be a whole lot of fun to explore the creek from the first bridge to the second. Now our ranch was 300 acres and it was a half kilometer wide by two and a half kilometers deep. About halfway through was a creek that wound around the virgin jungle. There were two bridges and two rainy season bridges. The bridges were only for the brave as they were only a sort of narrow tree laying over the water with another skinny branch that was stuck a little like a handrail. If you didn't have good balance you would slip off and fall into the water. The first bridge was high and had a slant so if it was rainy it got super slippery. Since we mostly ran around in flip flops or barefoot, we never had problems getting over the log. The trail wound around through the virgin jungle and ended up at the back of the property with another skinny log bridge over the same creek. We had a neighbor who lived on the property behind ...