Friday, September 07, 2007

Guanaja the Norh Coast and the first few days in La Esperanza

So while all the locals were scrambling to get off the island my brother Pete and I were trying to get on it. Of course the hurricane ended up hitting the far east coast of Honduras and falling apart but no one was in too much of a rush to get back to their homes. As a result it was a lot quieter that usual, we stayed on the north side of Guanaja and pretty much had the beach to ourselves. Good snorkeling and watrfalls to visit, it was a nice couple of days. The last day we spent on the much smaller but much more populated island because we were running out of money and there was no way to replenish our funds without waiting in a 4 hour line at the bank, and then only maybe. The small island called "Banaca"by locals is pretty cool, no cars or motorcycles and it was all connected by haphazard planned concrete walks, many of which were suspended over the water. I had fallen hit my leg on a rock and gashed it pretty good, it got infected so I went to a doctor who wrote me a subscription which I got filled at a local pharmacy. I don't know who was at fault the doctor or the phamacist but I ended up rubbing pink eye medicine on my leg for three days. I couldn't figire out why it wasn't helping. We're in La Esperanza now and I have seen another doctor who filled me in on the mishap, she performed a little minor surgery, scraping out the infection in my leg while I watched. She had numbed me down first so it was weird to see her sticking a rasor balde in my leg and to not feel a thing. So the legs on the mend, unfortunately we're both fighting back colds at the moment which has made the first few days pretty uneventful. Hopefully they'll be behind us by Monday, the community I'm here helping is expecting to see us.

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