Day 16(Jan 20)- Leaving the Amazon River, Brazil

Today we are leaving the Amazon River seven days after entering it.

The air on the Amazon river was sweet and green smelling while the air on the ocean has a salty smell.

The water changed from muddy in the Amazon, green in the estuary and finally blue when we reached the ocean. It took quite some time to completely exit the mouth of the Amazon and get to the blue water.

We’ve been watching the storm clouds that typically arrive in the afternoon. Sometimes they just dissipate but today we saw a big black cloud and had rain, thunder and lightening.

Brown water on way out of Amazon
Green water part of the way out
This is where. we had green water
Reaching blue water
Clear sky on one side of the ship and dark clouds on the other
Storm cloud on this side of ship