I was lucky enough to go on a several day work trip to Manaus, Brazil from 26 June to 1 July 2010. I patrolled the area around my hotel several days, finding a few little patches of habitat, and hired a guide a boat a couple of days as well. In the middle of rainy season, the rivers were very high. My hotel was the Manaus Tropical on the Rio Negro River. Each day's details:

26 June: Meeting of the Waters boat trip to confluence of Rio Negro and Rio Solimoes. Some consider this the beginning of the real Amazon.
27 June: Big Island (photo numbers 6-39), Ariau Tower on Ariau River (44-255)
28 June: Iranduba Lake (8-237), Lake Januauari (252-263), Januauri Island trail (268-316)
29 June: Hotel Tropical grounds

Thanks to Dennis Paulson for ID help with birds and odonates, Angelo Pinto and Natalia Von Ellenrieder with odonates, and Terry Irwin and Dan Duran with beetles.

This site is being published in March 2020, and many of the pages have been brought over from my old site but are not yet cleaned up from transcription issue... please be patient with me!