These rodents – Agouti (Dasyprocta leporine) were everywhere in the Iles du Salut

This Guianian brown capuchin (Cebus apella) inspects a chicken’s egg it’s just found

Having made a whole in the top by gently tapping it on the tree trunk, it’s now sucking out the contents

There were a couple of very aggressive Scarlet Macaws (Ara macao)

Our final destination – the River Kourou – and the final resting place for this once proud boat

Cutting up these enormous groupers on the fishermens’ pontoon

The boat was full of them – for reference of size, see the fisherman’s legs

A full-size replica of the Ariane space rocket we saw being launched – see Sally standing at the base

Standing in the blast pit of the Soyuz launcher on our tour of the Space Centre

Mission Control