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While on a herpetological expedition to Kartabo, Guyana, we decided to head into the small village to visit the school house. Kartabo sits on the point between the confluence of the Mazaruni River and the Cuyuni River, both of which are very broad at this junction. The small school house sits several hundred yards up the Mazaruni River before its junction with the Cuyuni River.
We were talking with the school teacher outside on the lawn during the children's recess, when some of the children started yelling and pointing out across the river. We turned and saw a very distant object, just barely breaking the surface of the water. It almost looked like a large stick floating on the surface, but it was going against the current and every 5-10 seconds there was a large splash behind it where a dark object seemed to rotate up out of the water from behind and then crash back below the surface. My two colleagues speculated back and forth between it being a caiman or an anaconda, but I knew it wasn't either of those given the overall form and swimming action.
It wasn't moving very fast and the distance from one shore to the other was somewhere between 0.75-1 mile. We watched it for a few minutes and it became clear that whatever it was, it was headed directly toward us. We continued watching for about ten more minutes when I suddenly realized what it was and shouted out "It's a Giant Anteater!". Though it was hard for my colleagues to believe that even though we were on a herpetological expedition, the Giant Anteater was at the top of my list of animals to see in South America (and close to the top in the world). However, I never believed I'd see one swimming across a major river in lowland, primary rainforest! I was always under the impression these animals inhabited areas of grasslands and other open habitats.
The animal continued to approach the area where we were standing, despite more than 50 school children jumping up and down and screaming. The shore we were standing on was approximately 20 feet above the current water level (this area is tidally influenced, despite its distance from the coast) and there was a large pile of boulders placed along the river bank for erosion control. When it became clear that the anteater was going to come on shore very close to we her we were, several of the school boys scrambled down the shear bank along a makeshift, zigzagging footpath they had created previously. The animal surfaced onto the first few boulders and was met by a few of the children. With surprising speed, it quickly shifted its position back into the water and swam passed them to another point among the rocks and bursted up out of the water. towards the dirt edge of the bank.
I snapped a few photos and then scrambled down the bank myself, as several of the young kids began poking at the anteater with sticks. I was concerned that the students might get hurt, given that they were provoking the anteater and knowing that these guys can inflict serious injury with their massive claws and powerful front legs. Despite their poking, the anteater ignored the kids and went right to a small eroded hollow in the bank. When it reached this spot, it poked around for a few seconds and then began to dig with its powerful claws into the side of the bank. Impressively, within about a minute, the anteater had dug a small tunnel about 8-10 feet back into the bank, where it curled itself up, protecting its head with its tail and body.
We rounded the kids up and got them to leave the anteater be. We asked the school teacher and several other adults if they knew what it was, but no one in the village had ever seen one. We explained to them it was a big relative of the Tamandua (the smaller, arboreal anteater that they were all familiar with). The fact that none of these people that were born and raised in this small village even had an idea of what this animal was, made it even more gratifying that we happened to be at the right place at the right time to witness this critter.
The confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
It was 12˚F with a 40 mph wind the day I visited Harpers Ferry, so the pictures were taken rapidly with freezing fingers.
Film d'essai (test film) of July 7, of the Canon FD lens 1:2.8 f=28mm with my Canon F-1 SLR (year 1973).
Ilford FP4+ exposed for 125 ISO at developed using Tetenal UltraFin T-Plus at dilution 1+4 for 8 min at 22°C. The film was exposed following the readings of the Canon F-1 or a Minolta Autometer III fitted with a 10° finder privileging the shadow zones.
The Canon FD lens was equipped with a Hoya HMC expert UV-protection filter (55mm) without shade hood.
Gare de Lyon Perrache, July 7, 2022
69002 Lyon
France
After process the film was digitalized using a Sony A7 body and a Minolta Slide Duplicator with a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5.
This is an image of the Willamette River at the confluence with Tryon Creek. The dark stumps in the foreground are part of the habitat enhancement project. For more information: www.portlandonline.com/bes/index.cfm?a=225319&c=53294
66th Confluence BPSA Scout Group booth at Tower Grove South, Morganford, Better Block Event, May 10, 2014
The confluence of the rivers Swale and Ure. The Swale is on the left. The two combine to form the River Ouse.
The Confluence of the Inn, Danube & Ilz rivers. South of Passau the river becomes the Danube.
Front and center is the Veste Niederhaus which is part of the larger Veste Oberhaus fortress complex . The fortress was founded in 1219 and was never conquered militarily.
29/01/2019
Un passage peu fréquenté du centre commercial Confluences, avec ses grandes parois de verre. Passage qui donne sur la darce, et sur le quartier à l'architecture contemporaine du quartier de Confluences.
Ce n'est pas la photo du siècle, clairement. Mais ce sera ma photo du jour.
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