Wanderlust: Bahamas part 2

I am so swamped with homework for the next two weeks. I haven't had much time to do work I get paid for. But my brain is numb. So I'm going to post to my blog.

I have a few more pictures and these are all from Inagua.

I forgot to tell you, while I was driving on Abaco at times when I wasn't listening for birds I would listen to Radio Abaco. I heard some good commercials that I wish I had recorded. One was about how I should get everything from Price Right with an unintelligable guy tell me what was available for purchase and then another guy translateing. I think I met that guy at a gas station when I was asking for directions. He said, "khre ke cor to co ca tahcahco" and i took that to mean, "If you want to use a credit card you have to go to Texaco." I was actually impressed that I understood him before he pointed to Texaco.

Then there was the Bahamian trying to do an Italian accent for a commercial for some canned noodle thing.

But the absolute best thing, was that I actually got to hear Boney M on the radio. Awesome!

So, Abaco is the most northern Island in the Bahamas and after leaving there I went to Inagua, the southern most island in the Bahamas. They are quite a bit different. Abaco has a much larger resident population as well as attracting a lot of tourists. Inagua doesn't attract nearly as many tourist. Most of the people that stop there are just passing through on their way to Cuba or Haiti or Puerto Rico.

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There is only one town on Inagua. It's called Matthew Town. I was told before I arrived that there would be hundreds of parrots all over town. I didn't see any parrots on Friday or Saturday. Many people I talked to said they hadn't seen parrot for weeks. I guess they will be back in town when the Genip (Spanish lime) is in season.

Another problem I had on Inagua was that the rental trucks were broken. So I was on foot. I did a lot of walking around the town but I had to hitchhike to get out of town where the parrots are.

Matthew town

Morton Main House

This is where I was lived.

City Park

My shadow

Generators

Dog at church

Lawnmower/future dinner.

Dragonflies on a wire.

Some plants

Cotton

Cactus tree

big moth

Inagua Parrot

On the last day I was there I saw two parrots in town.

Osprey on dish

Dead Donkey

Dead mini

Passport photo

Trip to East Inagua

On Sunday I hitchhiked to the east side of the island with some people that had hired a truck. It was a long day, 10 hours. Half of which I was sitting on coolers in the back of the truck. It as a bumpy ride but I got a good view.

After 10 hours I had recorded only 2 parrots. I was very tempted to return to California and return later when the parrot would be in town.

Eastern Inagua

Feral Donkey

This is a big lake we tried to drive across.

It turned out it was a little too wet. We drove half way across here and then had to turn around.

East Inagua

Road to narrow

At one point there was another truck of hunters coming our direction. We stood still for about 5 minutes with neither driver wanting to drive off the road.