For this second day in the Pantanal the group had to split into two parts once more. The usual approach would have been that everyone makes up his/her mind and either the groups are arranged in 5 minutes or the tour leader assigns groups. However Leo made the mistake of mentioning this the evening before, so Amir quickly started to create tickets and raffle off the places for the morning boat ride (choice was boat ride in the morning and canoe in the afternoon or the other way round).
Anyhow in the end I was rather happy not having won in this draw – it turned out that my group had a covered boat for the boat ride later in the day (by this lowering the probability for sunburn), we also did see more capibaras – and we did not have Amir with us 🙂 …

So we did go ahead and enjoyed a canoe trip in the morning – after lunch followed by the boat trip around the two rivers – including a chance for a swim in Rio Vermelho.