Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Arriving in Ecuador


Columbia, yes, but mostly Ecuador. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


This is Isla Malpelo, waaay off the coast of Columbia.  We pass this way by default while seeking favorable wind.  Some make the passage from Panama to Ecuador in six days.  We take twenty-two.


This is a street scene in Bahia Caraquez (say Caracas) our landfall in Ecuador and where we remain in late August 2014.  Sorry Jen, w didn't serve you coconut milk.


In Bahia Caraquez the wealthy live down low (near the water) and the poor live on the high ground, but it is a long way to carry drinking water.


In the nearby lowlands, crops of rice, above and onions, below are abundant.  We are told the best onions are exported to Columbia.


Farmers also raise shrimp in this area but the shrimp are not so photogenic.

A Farewell Tour of Western Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Bahia Honda, Panama we see these guys scavenging for clams at low tide. >>>>>


We walk a beach on Isla Coiba where some sections are eroding, exposing the roots of the palms and . .


some sections were accumulating new deposits.  We paddled and walked about five miles of this beach and never saw another person.