Dead head

You always find something going on in Copan. I was walking home one day and I met this guy(Jesse) outside his house. I asked him what the noise was in his house. He almost went through the roof, muttering how I could describe Grateful Dead as noise. I asked to be educated and was invited in for a beer where I could see that the whole house was a Grateful Dead tribute.

We chatted about music and he followed the Dead around the world, I think I got some merit when I dragged up the name of Hot Tuna from the past.

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Alfumbra completion

In the morning, it was stunning.

On the evening of Good Friday, there was a procession which went over the alfumbra and afterwards the work was swept away on Saturday.

I was very impressed. There were also others made elsewhere in the streets but these were single elements. In Antigua, I am told that there are many more alfumbras.

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Alfumbra preparation

On the evening of Maundy Thursday, there started work on a big community project to create an Alfumbra(carpet of sawdust) in one of the roads by Central Square.

The first step is to make a fill in the cobbles with a base layer of sawdust.

The next step was to draw grids with string and then to use cardboard boxes with a template cut in them. Coloured sawdust is then used to draw an outline.

The next step is then to fill in with different coloured sawdust.
and then the all important touching up.

They kept going all night, I decided to return at 6:00 am.

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Sunset on Copan Street

Arty image....

and Solar lighting...

Livingston

Livingston is a two hour boat journey down the Rio Dulce where the river meets the Caribbean. Livingston is a Garifuna village which are people descended from slaves deported from islands as the British and Spanish fought over the Caribbean.

The journey is very beautiful and pictures do not show the beauty of the trip.

Birds are all over the place.

I would like to live in this house!

Lilies in the river.

Livingston has a buzzy but lazy feel. We ate lunch in a restaurant overlooking the harbour where we watched the supplies being unloaded. All supplies have to come in by boat.

It was a bit of a cliche lunch, listening to Bob Marley and eating fish stew.

The beach at Livingston is not much to write home about.

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Fishing at Rio Dulce

There is a busy fish market, the local speciality fish is Snook












The poorer locals fish from a canoe for themselves, it looks precarious to me especially when throwing out the net.






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Howler Monkeys

The hotel offer a trip, meet at 5:30 am (no problem for us as School starts early), to go in a kayak to see the howler monkeys which you can hear in the hotel. Julie and I were in one kayak and Lucy and the guide were in the other. Lucy and the guide powered on ahead and we gently made our way across the lake to the monkeys.

Lucy photoing me photoing her.

Although we saw plenty of monkeys, there are not any good shots, dark monkeys in dark trees in the early morning light. However, I did record their sound, sorry not much action going on visually as I was concentrating on the sound.

Press the arrow to hear....