Like all tropical islands it's lush and green. There are flowers all over the place too. This island however has some of the steepest, winding streets you can imagine. Not quite Lombard Street in San Francisco but there is a lot of traffic speeding up and down the hills. All is not perfect in this island as there's 26% unemployment. We saw a homeless fellow
Sprawled out on the street. He was sleeping soundly on that hard cement mattress. As with the tropics everywhere, there's "stuff" strewn around -- it just seems to happen
I have no idea why this huge upturned bucket is there...and if you look at the house in the center, it's vacant and derelict, yet there is a fancy house on the hillside that looks perfect. That's just the tropics. Even with these two images before you, think pretty and peaceful and industrious. Lotof folks are working; there are lots of cars and trucks on the roads; and the kids are going to school in perky blue uniforms and the literacy rate is 90%. These are all good things.
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The weather is not too humid and the setting is wonderful.
The casaba is the national fruit...and this is a casaba tree. The huge fruits are not edible, but are dried to make musical instruments.
There are many craftsmen on the island -- they make these amazing free form wooden sculptures from roots
Each is one of a kind as the carver releases the sculpture from the root. Beautiful!
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