We miss having our small fleet and the crew in front of our home, but we needed to move to deeper water. The water was falling a little over a foot per day. When we moved I monitored the sonar as we moved around Iquitos. I thought you, and others might be interested. The draft on Dawn III is three and a half feet. Where we had the boats tied showed five and a half feet the morning we moved. The middle of the little bay in front of our office was 10 feet. A few hundred yards out from the mouth of the bay it dropped to 20 ft, but there is no good place to tie or anchor there. In front of ENAPU, customs port the depth was 42 ft. There is one deep hole about twice as wide and twice as long as my boat that is over 80 feet deep. I think I will keep that location a secret. The sonar showed it was full of large fish, the size of calves. The mouth of the Itaya narrows and gets shallow to 25 feet. We did not see any pink dolphins at the confluence of the Itaya and Amazon Rivers. Remember we recorded lots of dolphin sounds (and peke-peke sounds) there one day. The Amazon River, where we were, sounded a depth of 70 feet. Lots of pink and gray dolphins at the confluence of the Nanay River, and the depth went from 70 ft. to 25 ft. in the length of my boat. We tied up in 18 ft. of water at my official home port, the Hunting and Fishing Club, on the Nanay River.

The chart showing the depth can be seen at;
http://www.dhn.mil.pe/app/menu/servicios/rioamazonia/index.asp

Wishing you the best,
Bill