I’m off to an extremely hard-to-access jungle river in central Guyana in a couple of months, and am quite excited. It’s a tributary of the Essequibo river system, as opposed the Orinoco or Amazon. Interestingly, I’ve read that in high flood water times, all three of these river systems connect up (the Casiquare canal is the ‘connector’ between the Amazon and Orinoco), which allows fish species, giant otters, etc to move freely between them.
Having spent several months editing up my most recent solo expeditions into DVD form, I’m well and truly sick of sitting in front of the computer, and am ready to get out there to some obscure and little known jungle rivers again! The goal this time is to film jaguars, otters, tapirs and large snakes (the last anaconda they measured up this river was a little over 18 feet long). The other goal, of course, is to avoid having those botfly larvae squirming around under the surface of my skin…
Here in Australia, my remote river journeys have attracted enough attention to be premiering on television later this month (Foxtel). For you non-Aussies, the DVDs ‘Packrafting the Kimberley’ (42 minutes) and ‘Jungles of Gabon’ (20 minutes) are both on one DVD, and of course my ‘Coast of Bears’ adventure (62 minutes) is on its own DVD. Just go to the Products page of my website at www.remoteriverman.com if you are interested.
Cheers,
Kevin Casey
Remote River Man
www.remoteriverman.com