This little girl and her mom spent some time with us on the boat in Espirit de Santo. Cassie spent some time trying to get her to draw. She was very shy but opened up a little bit after some time and after some other kids joined in.

Loading the water filters onto the rowboat is a heavy balancing act. Ben is scooping water out of the filter and boat, Zeke is steadying the boat and Eliazondo will pull the filter into the boat as Richie and others push it from inside the Maranatha III. You can see the toll it takes on the boat's paint job. They loaded 3 filters, the hand truck, enough gravel, sand and rocks for each filter and 5 people into the rowboat for this particular delivery!! To learn about eh water filters go to thirstrelief.org.

Isn't this water lily pad beautiful? I think it looks like a heart. This was taken at the Belem Zoo. We spent an afternoon there during our 3 day lay over waiting for a flight to Altamira. Our time was not wasted, we met 3 young boys who followed us around all day. We got to share with them and they got to laugh at our bad Portuguese.

We couldn't dock at Mapardacia (not sure about the spelling, sorry). So, we anchored off the shore and took the rowboat to the village. This is the first bunch on their way being led by Clyde and Kevin.

This is one of the first pictures I took from the Maranatha III just after we left from Victoria.