Author: Danny and Diana Shaylor

Supply runs such as I’ve described in earlier posts began in the 1950’s and continued over several decades after which time commercial operators were hired to transport the supplies and fuel. During those early years not too much was happening in the line of commerce up those rivers and serious transportation options hadn’t been developed. […]

DDT means different things to different people. It may indeed have bad things inherent in its application.  However for those of us who lived on the upper reaches of the big rivers where decent sized boats could still navigate, the arrival of the DDT men was just another part of jungle life routine.  Their bright […]

                                                   The vast expanse of green the first missionaries entered in the middle to late 1940’s still looks pretty much the same today as it did back years ago. The difference […]

In the jungle you could make a difference for many people on so many levels.  You could be teaching a tribal friend to read when with no warning out of the blue (or gray as the case might be) in would swoop a helicopter full of officials.  Whether for the after noon or longer the […]

February is still very much a dry season happening here in the jungle. There are indicators however that the dry season is slipping by.  First off the dry season winds so prominent in December and early January have pretty much shut down.  Then the advancing season is betrayed by the burning off of garden sites […]

As the heavily loaded supply boats labored against the swift current hour after hour and day after day you could almost reach out and feel the excitement on the other end as the folks anxiously waited for their arrival.  This was the era when river transportation was the only way to get people, mail and […]

Some jungle dwellers are aware of days, weeks, months and have added the understanding of  these outside elements to their world view.  For other more remote jungle folks the concept of the days, weeks, and months is unknown.  They live their lives by the change of the seasons.  But no matter if December means just […]

November 1st, 2nd and 3rd are celebrated holidays in many South American countries and in some cases are National holidays.  Where the influence of civilization has reached the Jungle, that Jungle the  subject of these posts, November 1st  is known as the Day of the Dead.  And so the brief period of the return of […]