I wake up early and take advantage of the hotel’s not yet overloaded wifi to book a Caribbean Airlines flight for Saturday afternoon, direct to JFK, on Travelocity. $800 out of my pocket. Ouch. But I still haven’t heard from… (READ MORE)
This morning, we have a celebratory breakfast with sausage, fried plantain spears, farine bread and pancakes with killer bee honey (yup, local killer bee honey — tastes good!). After breakfast, we pack up our stuff and set out one more… (READ MORE)
The night has ended and isolation is practically over. I’m a little sad. It was fun. Tough too, but mostly fun. I liked the challenge. I will miss this, and the skill drills, and the lectures, and the people in… (READ MORE)
It is still raining. I am fervently hoping that when the sun rises, it will burn off the clouds and today will be sunny. After getting through the rainstorm, I have no doubt that I will get through the day… (READ MORE)
7:00 am breakfast. I haven’t been eating breakfast, but today I will. This might be my only meal for the next 48 hours! I saved some of my oatmeal packets and mix up 3 of them, with a sachet of… (READ MORE)
Our last day here, before we go into isolation! After breakfast, we get into the boats. After a short boat ride, we get out and walk. And walk. And walk. This seems a bit less focused than the last walkabout,… (READ MORE)
Breakfast at 7:00. The admins must boil 2 pots of water again for people’s oatmeal, tea and coffee, which means we admins need to get up with the howler monkeys at 5:50 and need to rekindle the hopefully still hot… (READ MORE)
Same breakfast routine as always, then one last bow hunting practice. Ian tells us to shoot first from 10 meters away (30 feet), then we get to move closer, to 5 meters (15 feet) to give us more confidence that… (READ MORE)
I had checked my fire last night and put some more wood on so the boots would dry a bit more as I was sleeping. As soon as it’s light out, I take the boots and the Christmas tree stick… (READ MORE)
7:00 breakfast, 8:00 bow hunting practice. Today Ian tells us that we need to be able to put an arrow on the string by feel alone, without looking: “you will never see the whole animal, only a small part of… (READ MORE)