Gigantic Crocodile

We judged it at about fifteen feet long, although it had been dead for awhile and the head and tail had both been ripped off, possibly by poachers. We didn’t stick around long, as the rancid odor was making us all feel ill.

Martin had his best day of swimming since entering Brazil. After a strong morning, he declared to us all at lunch, “I will swim 100 km today.” Sporadic afternoon showers kept him sheltered from the sun, enabling him to do more freestyle swimming. He kept up the fast pace until a few minutes after sunset, finishing the day at 101 km. The current is slower here than it was in Peru, and we were afraid those days of over 100 km were behind us, but Martin proved us wrong. Martin swam 91 km yesterday, ending the day at Fante Boa.

>>Matthew Mohlke, photo: Corrado Filipponi