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12:30 AM - Brazilian Federal Police boarded the boat and made their way through the whole crowd searching everyone’s bags. This is an especially large pain in the ass when you are packed into the human cargo hold like sardines and all the floor space beneath your hammock is luggage. To get to your hammock (from the bathroom for instance), you have to crawl under the first (outer) row of hammocks, then surface between yours and the next guy’s hammock, but still duck under the ends of the first row hammocks. So it took quite a bit of cooperation from everyone to wake up and hold back hammocks, creating a space where your neighbor could get searched. Diarrhea struck again, later in the night, which is another hassle given the above reasons.

Unlike the first boat in Peru, there is quite the international crowd on this boat. There are of course the usual suspects: Brits (including Scots) and Aussies, but there are also the three of us from the US (including Kevin), Israelis, a Nigerian, at least one Peruvian, a few Argentines and Chileans, and of course, Brazilians.