Puerto Viejo Outing

The weather Broke Tuesday, At last! It has been dry, clear, calm and even cool of an evening since. First clear skies since I got here.

tonight I went swimming at sunset and finally saw Orion directly overhead.
Never body surfed by starlight before-
long, straight glassy waves.
Water has been clearing and the ferry (a 'ponga' fishing boat with bucket seats)
to Punta Mona, tropical organic farm near the Panamanian border, has restarted.
Too rough recently. May ferry or hike in- 2hrs, and no road.

Hell with attempts to get pictures synced to this Blog. Later!.
Learned some of the native Carrib (black Costa Rican) language today, a patois called "megatalku" (Make I Talk You)
when 11 year old Carmen visited from across the road as Chamba & I lazed in out hammocks under the moonlight sorting out the Problems of the World (Many!), she explained it quite well for a kid, it sounds a lot like Jamaican without the Reggae overtones. Some Spanish words like "Mixcla" (Mexcla) for "Mixed-up" etc. as applied to her own language. a fun visit from a kid.

Spent time in Puerto Viejo with Deb and Edger earlier today, visiting the BriBri Mission:

About 10,000 aboriginal BriBri peoples live, largely unaffected by the outside world until relatively recently, in this province whose capital bears there name but well inland though extremely inaccessible dense jungle. crisscrossed with rivers.

In 1984 there was the consensus that Cost Rica had NO native populations left. Rapid (rabid?) property and other development and tourist expansion has made this patently untrue. Costa Rican revenue is noticeably switching from agricultural.

This is not their lucky day, and may never have been anyway. I took no pictures, but they look a lot like Amazonian natives. Not unhappy, just well, a bit dazed I guess.

They have little in the way of a written language and are still afflicted with primitive diseases like leprosy and their clan members engage in what we call sexual abuse and incest, as well as infanticide and more. life-expectancy and mortality are not known for sure as no records of our kind were kept until recently.
They appear not to live long enough to succumb to Western diseases of age like cancers and heart disease, creating the false impression of a healthy lifestyle...

No race is incapable of mean-spiritidness, criminality by our standards or unenlightened behaviors- these are for their own situation.
It has always been so I feel, and is not the effect of 'outside' interference.

Our shameful ways also seem paired to our Western lifestyle. A great deal of discussion ensued, much of it totally demolishing what little Noble Savage ideal I still had.

If you want to argue with me, please read the link first.
Actually, don't argue with me as my brain starting working again recently and I am right AND on Vacation.