We got up early to go to a nearby clay lick where green parrots and blue and red maraws would gather in the morning to pick of the clay. They need the clay to stabilize the digestion as they eat lots of acid fruits and the clay will neutralize these.

As we waited in the observation bridge the birds gathered in the trees above. First lots of green parrots, eventually the macaws came. The parrots never went down to the lick as the macaws outnumbered them. The macaws slowly descended from branch to branch untill, finally, one jumped down on the cliff. Then all the birds soon found their way to the lick. It was an hour long spectacle watching the birds.

As the birds left, so did we, first going down river to the oposite bank and take a walk. We saw some squirrel monkeys on the walk to a watch tower about 50m high. Thinking this was the only chance to see the canopies from above, we went up to the platform.

After lunch we went 3 hours upstream to the lodge at the Boca Manu air strip. No plans for the afternoon or night.