Feeding Pigs
Salsa af Stavsnas
Ellinor Ristoff Staffan Ehde
Thu 14 Mar 2013 12:46
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Far out in the oceans we throw our "natural"
leftovers to the sea. Hoping that a fish will appreciate it.
But what do we do with it when we are in a nice
archipellago and do not like to spoil the beauty?
Some Kuna indians have pigs on their islands, and
yesterday we had a chat on the radio with Chilly Cat ( an Australian boat on her
way home from Italy), and Charles told us to bring the leftovers for the pigs,
the kids will love it....
And they did. Yesterday we went ashore and met a
few Kunas, and we where also approached by some in a dugout canoe, they want to
sell Molas. Molas are beautyful pieces of cloth made by the women, their work is
artistic and they work with cloth on cloth on cloth. Creating abstract or
figurative pieces of art. If you do not know the Kunas, are a matriarchy,
so the women rule the villages and the families. We might be wrong
but so far no woman has been seen smiling, they are always serious, dead
serious, but the men are laughing, social, and even touch your shoulder or
something.
On the island a woman followed us, very friendly
but no smiles, she was curious about the childrens age etc. She had two children
of her own.
After feeding the pigs we took all the Kids (Karl
from Windarra and I) to a small island with the most beautyful sand, and the
colors in the water are just unreal.
Our women took time for themeselfe on board.I
also had Isobell, 4 year old from Sunrise as they came in yesterday and we let
them sleep undisturbed. They had a story to tell of course, like everybody
coming here. They had a tought sailing and all got seasick because the
movements where more than usual, so they took some medicine they never had
before, it said you would not feel dizzy.
But they did, the one on watch had a terrible time
trying to stay awake!
Yesterday I probably had the most beautyful kayak
tour in my life. I mean it! I left the boat on my own and went towards an island
behind us.
As I rounded the island I came into shallow water
with orange coral heads on white sand, and on my left was this beach that felt
untouched! Birds screeming and singing, a couple of turtles dived in front of me
and the whole scene was just never to forget. A huge tree probably coming
from the rainforest on mainland, had been there for some years and being
polished by sea and sand, was like a sculpture, everything about what I saw
was fresh, and if I looked to my right there was just sea to the horizon, some
waves breaking over a reef.
I'm trying to convince Ellinor to take tours on her
own like that but have not succeded so far.
Now it looks like we will have bad weather the
coming three days, with thunderstorms and lot of wind, so we migth just stay in
this anchorage, there is a lot to see. We have not snorkeled seriously yet, but
from what we heard you can see Manta Ray, Reef sharks etc
etc.
Weather permittng we might sail to a Kuna Villlage
by Rio Diablo, it is supposed to be a great experience.
We truly enjoy being here, we are priviledged! We
think this might be a little taste of the coming atolls in the
Pacific.
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