The Rupununi Savanna is a sprawling, 5000-square-mile expanse in the southwestern corner of Guyana. Most of it is grassland, dried and weatherbeaten at this time of year, lush and green (reportedly) during the summer rainy season. Islands of gallery forest dot the flat plains, and there are traces everywhere of wet season watercourses. Cracked mud crunches underfoot when you walk across now-dry ponds, shorebirds and ducks cluster in remnant pools full of water hyacinth, and islands of gallery forest stand green and lush in low spots and depressions all across the landscape. We're in the very northern part of the savanna, so we can see the ringing hills and mountains, hazy in the distance. After a morning wandering across the sere landscape, we spent another afternoon along the Rupununi River, the main waterway (and highway) through much of the savanna.
A pair of Jabiru, huge "man-sized" storks (as a friend always referred to them), stand atop their sizable nest in one of the savanna's wet spots.
A Cocoi Heron along the Rupununi River.
Dusk along a bend in the river.
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