Photo Gallery
Chicha Fuerte Festival - San Blas
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Stores coming into Porviner
The tourists from the cruise ships flying into to Porviner and off on a trip to neighboring islands
Cayuko sailing through the anchorage
Taking a wander through one of the islands off of Porviner
Bumping into the Stahlratte again in Porviner
The busy anchorage
The airstrip at Porviner, you'd better look both ways when you are crossing!
Off over to the Isla Robesons and Isla Gertie, you couldn't squeeze another house on if you tried
Off they go in their cayuko
Sitting in the local tienda having a beer
being checked out by the local kids
Saying hello to the piggy wigs
Cayuko parking
Marie in the anchorage
Seeing how they make the cayukos
The tree that the cayuko was made from
Over at Fredrico's finca helping him to pull up the yucca's
A chili bush, the first hot chiles we have seen since Guatemala
Pulling up the yucca roots
Replanting the stems
Chopping the vegetable from the stem
Other cayuko's on the rivers
Taking the dingy back
Stuart with Fredrico's friendly little parakeet
Fredrico's Aunt and Saila number 3
The cayuko race the day before the Chicha Fuerte festival, the guys in the lead ended up capsizing and the guys at the back won!
Watching the basketball championship
The winning team
Fredrico and his son
The cheeky little monkeys
Fredrico's wife and child
Having the traditional black line painted down my nose!
More piggy wigs
Another of the cheeky little monkeys, this one wasn't too sure about having her picture taken!
The day of the Chicha Fuerte festival
Stuart before he lobbed his hair off on the way to the Coco's
Stuart during the hair escapade!
Mano with a lovely new wig!
Stuart with no hair, looking like a right convict!
Back to the Coco Banderos
This is what can happen to you if you have bad weather and attempt a small reefy channel. This boat is wrecked off of the Coco Banderos (great snorkeling around it though and this is where the large Nurse shark likes to hang out.)
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