Boat Rental | $5500 of which $1900 has been paid as depost | 3600 |
boat prep and repair | build bodega for fresh food and dry goods, attach platform on stern for cleaning fish, pots/pans, erect two temporary cabins inside for occasional privacy | 2000 |
Fuel for primary engine | 85 HP diesel engine will use 8.5 gal per hour. Trip= 300 hours = 2550 gal, approx $4 per gal | 10200 |
Motor Oil | 50 gal, sufficient for 4 oil changes, approx $4 per gal | 200 |
Fuel for auxiliary boat | To explore tributaries too small for large boat, emergencies, 110 gal @ $4.50 per | 495 |
Crew on ground | For outfitting, trip prep, 10 people @ 120 soles per day per person (appr $40 pdpp), add'l for right hand an $500 | 4500 |
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Crew on trip | | |
Juan Ruber | Speaks dialect, years ago was in jungle with lumber an oil companies, local authority over other staff, no english | 1500 |
Laydi | Runs cocina, plans/executes food, laundry, etc., no english, one of three females | 1500 |
Jherman | Go to guy, assistant in all forms, decent english | 1000 |
George | True jungle guide, lives in jungle full time, night guardian, no english | 1000 |
Ruber | Also good jungle guide, invaluable for sighting birds and animals, operates small boat motors, some dialect, decent english | 1000 |
Siddalith | Cooking, cleaning, loves to work, makes people laugh, second of three females, little english | 1000 |
Jairo | policeman from Iquitos, invaluable for protection | 1000 |
Monica | kitchen/cleaning crew, third of three females | 1000 |
Pepe | Indigenous Matses headman with full face tattoos. Friend for 30 years. Speaks dialect and will calm the villages we encounter simply by being at easewith us. | 1000 |
Irene | Pepe's wife and daughter of perhaps most famous Matses headman in modern times. She will be unequaled in gathering wild foods, making natural medicines, etc. $1000 | 1000 |
Medical Doctor | Absolute must on a trip of this length and scope | 3000 |
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Medical Kit Supplies | | 400 |
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Gorman expenses | Flights | 2000 |
| Trip prep | 2000 |
| iquitos hotel | 2000 |
| expenses two months | 4000 |
| ER cash | 6000 |
Devon Wright (Peter's assistant for 10 years) expenses | Flights | 2000 |
| trip prep | 1000 |
| iquitos hotel | 2000 |
| expenses two months | 2500 |
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Military outposts | permissions to pass, FUNAI | 4000 |
Drones | with chargers and extra batteries, | 3900 |
Satellite Phone | rental and service | 3500 |
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Kitchen costs | | |
| Grill and charcoal | 200 |
| buckets, soaps, scrubbers | 150 |
| thermoses, backup stove, freezer, used fridge | 1200 |
| 30 tanks of propane | 600 |
| two required cocina licenses/classes for Laydi and Siddalith | 300 |
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Fresh food | | |
| 30 flats of eggs, potatoes, tomatos, carrots, yams, beets, ginger, onions, yucca, corn, plantains, limes, celery, peppers, fruits, scallions…2000 meals, can be reupped in Leticia and at Peleton Brazilian military base | 2500 |
Dry goods | 6 kilos salt, 1 kilo peppr, spices, 60 liters cooking oil, 80 kilos rice, 10 kilos pastas, 10 kilos cheeses, 30 large instant coffee, 30 large instant chocolate, 3 flats (72) cans evap milk, 20 cans sweet condensed milk, 20 boxes tea bags, 20 cans spam, 40 tins large sardines, 40 cans tomato aste, 8 kilos each of black beans, lentils, split peas, ucayali beans canary beans, popcorn. 40 large bags dry bread, 10 large strawberry jam, 20 tins red feather butter, napkins, toilt paper, paper towels | 2000 |
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Boat Protection | | |
| 2 12 gauge shotguns (already have two) | 700 |
| 2 shotgun licenses | 300 |
| 2 flare guns shipped to Peru early | 250 |
| add'l flares | 50 |
| 2 sets of (2) walkie talkies with batteries | 200 |
| 6 machetes (jungle and boat use) | 50 |
| 4 fire extinguishers | 120 |
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Other boat needs | | |
| 50 meters heav plastic and hooks to drop outside windows in rainy weather | 200 |
| 6 extra spark plugs for boat, small boat, generator | 25 |
| 6 extra propellers, three for each boat motor | 50 |
| 12 cotter pins to secure new propellers as needed | 4 |
| 12 lanters if generator goes bad | 75 |
| 20 yards tethering rope, tie boat down at night and various needs | 60 |
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Miscellaneous | | |
| Indian glass seed beads, a cherished gift on the river, 20 kilo @ 15 per kilo, fishingline, hooks, weights, nets | 400 |
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