They are right along the Pacific and are only seperated from the relentless ocean by a small island.
You get one guess which boat was going to be for me
It was a hollowed out tree that was just wide enough to sit in, and the coolest boat I´ve been in yet. The mangroves were filled with all sorts of cool noises and birds flying all over. The sound of the motor scared most off before we could ever get close enough to get a picture of them. The swamp was teeming with life, fish were darting everywhere in front of the boat, crabs were all over the trees and there were a few iguanas perched on trees in the distance.
When we got out of the boat these crabs were in the bushes and running away very quickly, this dude was the most photogenic of them all.
The other side of the island:
This is a really beautiful country with a beautiful people. The land is spotted with volcanoes, some very new, but all beautiful. Before the building of the Panama Canal, the plan was to cut one through Nicaragua, using Lake Managua as the major passageway. Some American business interests had designs on Panama though, and they orchestrated a campaign to disuade the building of it in Nicaragua. Their major public relations campaign used these volcanoes as a scare tactic, and well Jimmy Carter ...
Played trivia last night with a bunch of travelers at a bar; always choose Ghana.
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