Last day in Misahualli

Monday 28th
Mum and I went on one final walk over the bridge over the Napo river on the road to Shirapuno. It was amazing to still be seeing new creatures, new types of butterflies and spiders, some of the biggest dragon flies you could imagine, turtles (that slipped into the water before we had a chance to photo them), and the most enormous eyed soldier ants of the leafcutter tribe (I think). (The photos from this walk are in with some of the others so that all the creepy crawlies are together)

Then back to the house to pack and get ready for our departure tomorrow. We seem to have gained an incredible amount of stuff since we started out with our two rucksacks! We packed up one of mum's bags with stuff to be taken back to Quito by Rebecca and Karina, some of the stuff that mum bought in Otavalo, some stuff that she will take home for us, and some stuff that we will collect when we return to Quito to get the car papers finally sorted out.
Around 4pm we all went down to the beach to try and cool off. The monkeys were all down there too in really playful mood and we got some fabulous photos. We also tried to recreate a photo that I took about 10 years ago of Celso and Tristan standing on a rock looking down the river.
Again in the evening we played cards and games until well after midnight.