Day 1, in 10 minutes I had dozens of bites stupidly not covering up
Itapoa, our home in the rainforest
Giant snails
El Rio
Our hot outfits for six days
The garden
We whacked the grass away with a machete
Resident butterfly
Hard work in the garden
Swimming in the river with Miguel, Mercedes and their two girls
Ahh relief!
Raul explains the trees we will be planting
Miguel
The house again
Cacoa trees
Native trees
The wasp sting number 1 and 2
Wasp sting number 3
Hearts of palm forest
Giant Millipede
Fungus
Cacoa
Cacoa beans are covered with a sweet, mango-like skin
Ripe Arabic coffee beans
Non-ripe coffee beans
Cracking macadamia nuts
Planting seedlings
Wasp sting charade.......
Dinner when the power went out (for the fourth time) with Raul and Annika
The girls and their machetes
Sweet double seat on a bike set up
Plumeria
Cacao beans
Cacao fruit
Andy and Miguel making a barbed wire fence
Palm tree
Unripe coffee beans
Andy
Andy and Miguel
Harvesting cacao from waaaay up in the trees with a slicer on the end of a bamboo stick
Bananas
Chocolate making lesson
Dried cacao
Roast the beans for 15 minutes
Then they look like this
Grind them up to a soft, oily powder
Melt with butter, milk and sugar and dip bananas in the fondue. YUM.
Ripe coffee beans before they are peeled
Shelled coffee beans
Dried coffee beans
Spooky old house on property
View out the window from our bedroom
The upstairs observatory
Puerto Quito
