Pink Dolphins? Thought it was elephants!

[Crawdad]

I recently did a trip with my university to Peru. While their we went to the Amazon basin with the Explorama Lodges. (highly recomend them) While boating down the Napo River, a tributary of the Amazon. So I'm sitting their when the water breaks and up comes a Dolphin, a few thousand miles up river from the ocean. Not only that, but it's pink! After checking my whater bottle to make sure that I actualy had water and not firewater, I looked at the guide. Turns out that their are freshwater dolphins and they get their pink color from eating the local shrimp, similar to the pink Flamingo. Of course we had to swim with them, almost a mistake. The current was strong and we had to meet the boat at the shore, we couldn't fight the current back. All in all a really cool trip and a really cool eleph, I mean dolphin.

 

[metaldector]

My wife is from the Amazon area of Peru. She tells me that she has seen the Pink dolphins on several occasions when on the river. She (and most locals) belive the Pink Dolphins to be a "bad omen" and one should get away from them as quickly as possible.
Now a question for you? Was there any clear water where you were diving. All I've every seen there is muddy dark water?