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Ecuador:  Fish Farming and Landslides (Day 6 Part 2)

11/25/2014

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We depart Tandayapa Bird Lodge by late morning.  The track ahead of us will continue to deliver surprises all throughout the ride.  For example, how about these fine equines arranged in alternating color on the right of way?

Apparently, we've located them during mid-morning horsie snooze hour.

To us this a beautiful landscape, to those horsies, this is so much vegetation, so little time to eat it all.  Look at that high-gloss luster on their coats!
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Remember green stuff needs water, lots of water.  It's been a while since we've posted a pic of a waterfall.
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Seeing all the that water run down the side of a Volcano mountain seems so wasteful. Let's use it to go fish farming instead. You can see the guy in the red shirt in one of the drained channels.  He scoops them up with a net an hands them off to the people on the far right side.  Gutted and filleted on the spot!
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They appear to be rainbow trout, but I am certainly no Angler and could easily be wrong.
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Who will win?  A nimble DR200 or a Caterpillar Wheeled Dozer? The first landslide we hit the entire trip.  I am surprised they are working on it to tell the truth, as they don't have a single "peligro" tape anywhere.  It's not like a reroute will be easy, as we've not seen a cross road for a over an hour. 

So we wait.  Naturally, you think it will just be "one more scoop" before it's open.  Then the hills settles again, and just undoes all his efforts.  About 30 minutes into this, Bruce and I get a strategy to wait till the pile is nearly flat, then run over the top it. The Dozer operator must have had the same thought, because next time he had it cleared, he waved us through.
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