Yep... that's already 2 weeks I haven't written and I'm about to leave for another week in the jungle where the monkeys awl and where internet is just not reaching....
My last adventures? Well, for a start I came back from Monkey Point in a drug dealer's boat without knowing it... I got told about the drug dealer guy afterward along with the fact that I was REALLY beyond naive sometimes... or all the time... Ho well. Everything is well, they were friendly and gave us a ride home for free...
And how did I find out... Well, really, I didn't, but Scott, who was with me for the ride, did. Actually, he thought something fishy was going on with the people in this boat but well, that was either going back with them or being stuck for 3 more days in Monkey Point (to think of it, the second option was not bad at all). Anyway, he ask some of his local friends when back in Bluefields and the rumor has it that a load of cocaine has been thrown away offshore of Nicaragua. People here know the streams and they know when a drug shipment is thrown to the water, it tends to end up somewhere on the beach around Bluefields area.
And so the crew members of our boat ride were passing by to look and ask around if they were any sign of the white lobster as they call these packet of very white cocaine bags landing on the beaches around here. Officially they were in Monkey Point so one of them could visit his mum living in this community. Unofficially... well, they asked around and dropped one guy on the beach in the middle of nowhere between Monkey Point and Bluefields (I actually remember that I did wonder at that point why the hell they were dropping the guy off there but well... people sometimes, more often than not, do strange things around here...).
I don't know the end of the story... that is, if they've found something or not. What I know is that rumors of drug cargoes being dumped at sea these days are getting stronger and that's a real possibility that a good numbers of locals are walking around on beaches in search of this unseasonal lobsters just as I write. Scary? well... kind of... But mostly I wonder, of course I know drug is bad but the people around really could use a bit more of cash flow: P. could use it to finish and build this eco lodge he's dreaming of, P. (a different one) could use it to build his church, D. could use it and live of it and come back to teach, M's family could use it to send her to high school or uni in Bluefields, G. could use it to refurbish the health center... so I wonder... what would I do if I end up finding one myself? What would YOU do?
My last adventures? Well, for a start I came back from Monkey Point in a drug dealer's boat without knowing it... I got told about the drug dealer guy afterward along with the fact that I was REALLY beyond naive sometimes... or all the time... Ho well. Everything is well, they were friendly and gave us a ride home for free...
And how did I find out... Well, really, I didn't, but Scott, who was with me for the ride, did. Actually, he thought something fishy was going on with the people in this boat but well, that was either going back with them or being stuck for 3 more days in Monkey Point (to think of it, the second option was not bad at all). Anyway, he ask some of his local friends when back in Bluefields and the rumor has it that a load of cocaine has been thrown away offshore of Nicaragua. People here know the streams and they know when a drug shipment is thrown to the water, it tends to end up somewhere on the beach around Bluefields area.
And so the crew members of our boat ride were passing by to look and ask around if they were any sign of the white lobster as they call these packet of very white cocaine bags landing on the beaches around here. Officially they were in Monkey Point so one of them could visit his mum living in this community. Unofficially... well, they asked around and dropped one guy on the beach in the middle of nowhere between Monkey Point and Bluefields (I actually remember that I did wonder at that point why the hell they were dropping the guy off there but well... people sometimes, more often than not, do strange things around here...).
I don't know the end of the story... that is, if they've found something or not. What I know is that rumors of drug cargoes being dumped at sea these days are getting stronger and that's a real possibility that a good numbers of locals are walking around on beaches in search of this unseasonal lobsters just as I write. Scary? well... kind of... But mostly I wonder, of course I know drug is bad but the people around really could use a bit more of cash flow: P. could use it to finish and build this eco lodge he's dreaming of, P. (a different one) could use it to build his church, D. could use it and live of it and come back to teach, M's family could use it to send her to high school or uni in Bluefields, G. could use it to refurbish the health center... so I wonder... what would I do if I end up finding one myself? What would YOU do?












