Hike To Waterfall & A Mute Duck

Trip Start Sep 29, 2007
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Thursday, November 22, 2007

After the filming was done and we had some sandwiches prepared, Ryan organized a local guide (the star of the documentary) to take a group of us on a hike to a lush waterfall two hours away for US$2 per person. Annie, Craig, Ryan and five others plus us took off through fields of wheat, coffee and bananas where gear was transported by horse and men worked the fields with machetes. The landscapes in this stretch of fertile space were exotic and filled with fruits, cocoa beans (chocolate grows on trees here), edible nuts and bolts and numerous medicinal plants which the guide pointed out. We saw many things we couldnīt recognize and this added to the experience. Everything seemed to be alive and over sized. A powerful energy was felt here. We saw a petroglyph which is evidence of ancient human  habitation on the island. These stone sculptures are carved with symbols depicting humans, animals, birds, spirals and other geometric shapes. In one place on the walk we were surrounded by butterflies flying all around us, a glorious butterfly gathering space 1
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 . Monkeys were never too far away. We saw the manic lizards that run on their back to legs and logs covered in fungus and mushrooms. Pixies could play in there all day.

We came upon a womanīs house in the middle of the land who was poor and had a blind son. The woman also had cats. dogs of all sizes, pigs, chickens, roosters, turkeys and a mute duck all living in the one space in relative harmony. We bought some bananas from her which we ate straight away and threw th skins to the pigs to eat. The track was slippery and muddy. We climbed up rocks with cascading water to the main falls, lush. The falls were only about 30 metres high but fully flowing. We didnīt swim there as the villages use the water for drinking and it is in a pure state. As we descended back, i realized that we had needed a water energy fix after chasing fiery volcanoes for so long. The guide whistled tunes an a leaf, using it like a harmonica and i thought the walk was great and just challenging enough. Life is grand and as it should be on the Isla De Ometepe
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