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44 EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED
Date Jan. 11, 1963 Friday
Place Iguassu, and on plane to Buenos Aires
Weather Sunny & hot, cool at night

This is Doris' birthday & I gave her 2 pr. stockings, which was the only suitable thing I had with me. Breakfast was rather poor, with hard, dry toast & jam, & weak tea. About 9 we took our nets & collected some insects in the front yard of the hotel. Then we walked into The Nat'l Park of Iguassu, & went over wood footbridges & paths thru a beautiful jungle, seeing bits of the falls every four feet from the many channels flowing over pot-holed rocks. In about half a mile we came to the final view, which was suberb, with 2 great circles of falls visible, & spray coming from below, with hundreds of swallows flying above it catching mosquitos. Soon a flock of 50 or 60 large squawking birds flew past, & we recognized the big green parrots. I photographed them in flight as they flew around to different trees hunting fruit or seeds. Lizards (Tropidurus) appeared on many rocks & about 20 kinds of bright butterflies, but we collected nothing, as we know how to behave in national parks.
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But 2 young squirts of park police did not think so as they came up, & after seeing our nets, demanded our little bottles of insects. We gave them up, & the police said they would return them to the hotel. We tried & explain that we were "scientists" & were leaving on the 5 PM plane for B.A. (so we thought!). They said they would bring them to the hotel for us, but instead came for my official calling card & to see my Rix permit, etc. - After a horrible lunch, we were told that there would not be a place at 5, as rains prevented its taking off from the dirt field which is all the airstrip these tiny planes have here. But at 730 it finally limped in, & we got a bus to the airfield nearly - no dinner. The place came down 4 or 5 times for a fueling, & each time we had to get off for fear of explosion. They finally got some sandwiches & coffee aboard & we had them about 930. We got to B.A. more dead than alive at 230 AM, & fell into bed at our hotel, which fortunately had got our letter.
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