The Holbrook Explorer

Day 1 / June 21, 2013 My day started early, but I was so happy to be traveling to Peru and flying out of my home airport Gainesville, FL!

Air Madagascar changed our afternoon flight to a morning flight so we had a 5 AM breakfast and started our four hour drive to Fort Dauphin.

Our goal of shooting dancing lemurs was foiled by a cold morning. The sifakas stayed up in the treetops, trying to stay warm in the sun.

Day 10 The day started bright and early with a 6:00 breakfast so we would be ready when the Verreaux’s sifakas started to feed. They leave the forest and cross to the fruit trees to feed.

Day 8 We took a last morning boat ride, then packed up and transferred to town for our afternoon flight to Tana. The birds tried to outdo everything they had given us on the previous boat rides.

I took the second group for the morning boat while the others went to the forest pond. The boat is amazing! It’s flat-bottomed with a roof and rails all around to support cameras.