by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 21, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Ted Judy, Freshwater
“When we were arriving by plane into Puerto Inirida, we had a bird’s-eye view of the whitewater Rio Guaviare near its confluence with the Rio Inirida, and we all noticed a large blackwater oxbow lake very near the river. This is Lago Macasabe. After...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jun 29, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Ted Judy, Freshwater
“Week two of this Colombian adventure begins in Bogota, where Jeff Cardwell, Vin Kutty, Eduardo Gomes, Hernando Gil and I board a plane to fly east to the city of Puerto Inírida, and the confluence region on the border between Colombia and Venezuela. The flight...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jun 1, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Ted Judy, Freshwater
“In the last episode of Colombia 2016, we visited a stream in the Upper Rio Meta drainage north of Villavicencio. Some of the animals we found in the upstream pool include Crenicichla sp. “Belly Crawler,” Hemiloricaria eigenmanni “Whiptail...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Mar 13, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Ted Judy, Freshwater
“Day 3 in Colombia, and once again we wake up in the morning to find that somebody has parked our car in…. “Today, we’re headed back up the hill to Bogota to watch Hernando [Gil] pack a fish order. I’m going to check off two boxes on my...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Mar 6, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Ted Judy, Freshwater
“We carried on to the [fish] farm of my friend Hernando Gil, where he has invested a lot of resources into raising some of the rare ornamental fish found in Colombia. Let’s take a look!” That look includes Panda Uarus (Uaru fernandezyepezi), Altum...
