S/V L'ORIENT

Guna woman- a tough negotiator Last things first- before our loyal readers in Azerbaijan and Malta get bent out of shape, L'ORIENT is not now some seedy three-some......far from it. Les (our crewman, if he is indeed male) is a 1 inch gecko. He lives somewhere in the mizzen mast rope storage area, coming out at night to join us regularly for happy hour and dinner. He looks around (wonderful large black eyes, although a big googly if you asked me), stares a lot, then returns to his lair after about 20 minutes. Call us sentimental, but we love him/her and even leave him/her crumbs of food............which brings me to that exact point. Lobstermen in a sail-equipped dugout canoe.....very modern by Guna standards Crumbs of food. Call this the paradise diet........here in the San Blas islands we are sailing among reefs and atolls that are breathtaking in their beauty. But there are no grocery stores or restaurants in the sense that a normal person understands them. Let me expl...