This is Nathan, reporting in for the well drilling team. We just arrived back in Santa Cruz we are all feeling very refreshed after a shower. The well drilling project was a successful adventure! We left the Santa Cruz hotel on Sunday morning and drove to a local (small) airport. We boarded two six-seater airplanes and flew two hours to the village of San Lorenzo de Moxos. Our landing there disrupted the local church service as many of the attenders ran to the grass runway to meet our planes. We joined them for the end of their church service and then ate lunch with some of them before embarking for the village of Las Hermosas. The trip to Las Hermosas consisted of a six-hour trip upriver in a dug-out wooden canoe with a small motor. The wildlife we observed on our trip was astounding. We saw numerous species of birds, including macaws and kingfishers, monkeys, and even some pink dolphins! In addition, we counted 31 alligators and crocodiles, including one that we estimated to be about 12 feet long! Sunday morning we camped at the farm of our canoe guide and then finished our trip on Monday morning. We arrived in Las Hermosas, met the villagers, ate some breakfast, and began setting up to drill. The locals were very helpful - it was incredible how quickly they chopped up large tree trunks with a simple set of tools (axe and machette) to use for the frame of our drill. We went right to work on the well and actually completed drilling on Monday evening - two days ahead of schedule. Danny said it was the fastest they had ever drilled a well to that depth. (I would like to think that the strength and endurance of our team played a key role in that accomplishment, but the soft sand was also a major factor!) On Tuesday we helped put the finishing touches on the well and then had a chance to go fishing with some of the villagers. They hauled in about a dozen fish in less than an hour with a bow and arrow and spear and simple hook and line, but the Americanos would have come up empty except that Terri and Sidney each caught a fish! Today we reversed our trip. It was slightly faster downstream. Our croc count on the return trip was 43! Well, the transition home team just arrived back at the hotel, so we are going to join them for dinner and recount our adventures!