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Melissa & Dave - Adventures at Sea

Nargana

This afternoon we went into town here at Nargana.  We were delighted to find fresh food.  Apparently its hit or miss here - depending on when the last delivery to the island came in.  But there was an abundance of everything - and super fresh.  We bought a whole chicken for Melissa to put in the oven and roast with some potatoes for dinner.  She even took the leftover bones and made fresh chicken stock!  When Neko pulled in we returned again with Mary for more supplies, and the fresh bread that the bakery told us would be ready later in the day.

The houses around town are built from canes tied together.  It would certainly change a society's view of privacy as anyone can peek through the cracks.

The town has a bad problem with trash.  Its littered everywhere.  And the mangroves near by are filled with it.  Basically because there is no good way to dispose of it - its just piling up all over the place.  The cruiser guide books tell us to be careful who we give our trash to here because its likely to end up just being dumped along the shoreline.  We gave our trash to an older gentleman yesterday who promised to burn it rather than dump it.  We can only hope...

The Kuna Indians who live here still have close ties to, and do a lot of trading with Columbia.  This is one of the trade ships that runs back and forth.  Doesn't exactly look seaworthy to us, but these tubs make the crossing routinely.

When we got back to the boat we got the great news that the US Coast Guard has (finally!) approved Dave's captain's credentials, and his license will be issued tomorrow!  What a buracratic nightmare.  Dave says he would have long ago given up had it not been for Melissa's tenaciousness at getting through the piles of paperwork.

The Kuna Indians are always coming out to the boats to sell us stuff.  Sometimes its fruit.  Sometimes fish.  This was a first.

Yes, those are iguanas.  Apparently they eat them.  Having no clue how to clean them though, we figured we would stick with chicken, as you know they're gonna taste like chicken anyway, right?  They wanted $2 to let Melissa take pictures.  Dave negotiated them down to $1.  I think the picture was worth $1.  We found out later that the Kuna used to be very afraid of people taking pictures of them.  But at some point some of them visited Panama City and saw postcards being sold for $1 with tribal pictures on them.  They concluded that was the going cost to take pictures - $1 and immediately decided it was another revenue making opportunity.

 

 

 

 

 

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