Hill in Haiti. Deforestation is pretty bad there.
Watermelon stand
This is a roadside drainage ditch.
The market near Saint Marc.
A Haitian fence (made of cactus).
Fording a river in the school bus.
And another one.
There was flash flooding before we arrived, overtopping a bridge. This area was too muddy for buses to pass through for an hour or so.
Kids always want their picture taken. Get prepared for lots more of these.
The floods knocked down this sorghum.
The flash flooding wiped out the potable water pipe. Here it is.
And here's where it gushes out on the other side.
This is where we were planning to put a powerhouse, until the flooding made us reconsider.
We had been planning to run a pipe along this hillside, until the flooding made us reconsider.
View from the intended powerhouse site.
And then it started dumping.
This is a road, not a river.
Same with this.
And this.
Ok this one is actually a ditch, but 10 feet upstream this was all in the road. This is in fact only half the flow of the road.
Cooking outside at a school.
Retaining wall.
Desodle followed us everywhere we went.
Once you take a picture of one Haitian, everyone within visible range wants a photo taken.
Kids throwing rocks into the mango tree to knock them down. One of the few Creole things I learned to say was "how many mangoes have you eaten today?" ("jodia ou mange combien mango?"). Most kids had eaten around 6.
Standing on the "source". This water just comes out of the ground. The concrete is here to prevent it from getting contaminated before they can put it in a pipe.
The view from above the source.
Salesian. This kid was smart, and wanted me to correct his mistakes in English.
Irrigation structure near the clinic site.
Kids helping us survey.
A kid wanted to take my picture but didnt know how to aim...
So I tried to compensate for it.
Desodle and his brother again.
Me with Desodle.
Surveying at the clinic site.
The huge spider that was just chillin in the dining room.
Surveying at the clinic site
Surveying at the pipe rupture site.
The river apparently moved these boulders.
Irrigation structure: This is where they divert the flow into the little canals.
Uh-oh, caught outside with a camera again!
Looks like the river scoured about 6' down here.
Rice patties at the back of the clinic site.
Pretty hillside where we might run the penstock.
With Kyle A
The river demolished this irrigation structure pretty good.
Haitians just don't like carrying things with their hands, and it seems they learn it at a young age.
Wearin Vital's hat at Actionnel's house.
Replacing the box culvert in downtown Gonaives.
Five years ago, this lake did not exist. Flooding in 2004 from tropical storm Jean created it, spurring them to start building this bridge once it dried up. Just last year Wisconsin folks used the airport under this water. But then the 4 hurricanes last year flooded it again. It's a few miles across and people were fishing in it.
Another view
The half built bridge.
Dude fishing in a Haitian canoe.
Saturday we hiked up to an old French fort. We're partway up the hill.
Another rest spot.
Villages near the top.
There it is.
Cool rocks without me in the way.
Another fort just along the ridge.
Some folks climbed the walls.
View of the valley.
Lake Anna again.
Zoomed in on Bayonnais
At the fort.
Four leaf clovers everywhere!
People were farming very close to the top.
Cannon at the second fort! Needless to say, it was way cooler. Three cannons in all.
Mountain in the clouds.
Carrots growing wild on the hillside.
Cool valley on the way down.
We'll end with some cuteness! These girls followed me quite a ways.
