Above. Samuel's clinic. I counted Samuel as having 4 jobs. His clinic. He also lectures part-time at a couple of universities (there are 4 universities in Santarem: a federal univ, a state univ and 2 private universities), he is also an occupational health inspector (he visits companies to check their occupational health standards - a job not without dangers and he has received threats), and he also works to develop his own project on occupational health - he has developed a web site which details all the health regulations and is designed to help occupational health technicians in companies. This latter is Samuel's favourite work. Samuel went to UK - to Leeds university/Nuffield institure- in 1990/1 on a Chevening Scholarship and it was following this that he started to develop his project.
Above. Not clear but in distance there is a large ship - for tyransporting soya (Brazil isworld's largest producer).
Above. View along river to the port.
Above. Tapajos (foreground) and Amazon (top right) rivers.
Above. The dark coloured water is the Tapajos and the light ("white") coloured wateris the Amazon. The river in the foreground is the Tapajos and the river top right is the Amazon. This time of year the water is low and so the Amzon water mixes with the Tapajos. In June when the water is very high there is a clear division between the two waters.
Sunday morning drove around Santarem. It was a religious festival - Ciriu do nossa senhora do concepcao (Our lady of the conception) with large processions, which for some reason I did not get a picture of. Above is a view looking across the Tapajos river - the low island is quite recent (last 10 years or so), from silt from the Amazon. Tapajos was the name of the indigenous indians - unfortunately they were not prepared to submit to slavery under the Portuguese and were completely exterminated. 
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