River Trip in El Salvador

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April 29th 2008

Published: April 29th 2008

Hello everyone! Yep, we are still here in El Salvador. We are waiting to receive a Solenoid that we ordered, and the delivery missed the carrier by a few hours, so luckily we had a contact up in the same area (Seattle) who was flying down here about 5 days later. So through phone calls and overenighting the package UPS, supposedly it will arrive here Thursday. We may be leaving here Thursday,... Read Full Entry

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Passing a homestead

This is Santos' aunt's house. He had lived here with his wife for a couple years. Lots of people use these cyukos. They have good upper body strength, as we would comment up in the states.

The group of kyakers

Waiting by a mangrove tunnel for a photo-op.

Mr. Kyak himself

Give that man credit where it's due....giving his all to develop that kyak lore....

Yours truly in Kyak form

Nice sunny day, it was good to get these kyaks out for once.

Tunnel of Mangrove

It wasn't easy getting through with those long paddles, but we managed, then we had to remember how to get back...no gps, we decided to not go too far.

Truly Manuel Labor

Here's the long cyuko with logs from the mangrove woods, chopped with an ax to be brought back home 4 miles away...notice...no engine....

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