I dont usually give trip reports, because i dont usually stay at resorts very long if at all.
But i do get around and I see lots of things.. This last trip I made a few excursions, one being a duck hunting up on the north coast west of Nagua, in a tidal flow swamp. What a sight...lots of wildlife...the fishermen working their nets and traps...being poled along in the shallow soft bottomed bays. saw plenty of ducks and even managed to harvest a few. The mangroves grow all around, so thick you have no idea where the shore actually is. They grow down into the water and form a set of bars preventing any passage. Since we didnt see the numbers we expected we abandoned that set up and went looking for the ducks and or sighting of them. Which led us to many thousands of acres of rice fields beign worked. Where not to our surprise we found thousands of ducks...all dead . Seems in this area the rice is planted by throwing in onto a muddy prepped field then flooded....instead of the pre grown stalk of rice being planted by hand. As such the ducks come in at night and gorge themselves on the rice.. It was said that sometimes they fields are stripped of 50% of their planted rice in a single night. So the workers spray the rice fields after they throw the rice seeds with poisons. Seems to work pretty good. Kinda makes my 4 ducks pale in comparison..HUH?
It is an adventure to be out off the beaten path...something I really appreciate. I am sure in that swamp way out back , when i walked with my waders across the flat...I walked where possibly no man has walked for hundreds of years maybe more.. The fishermen used these really rinky narrow boats that didnt look like they would last 10 minutes before they sunk....On the way back in we passed some very old wodden huts. On one insrcibed over the door was the letters S.M. with the date 9-42......history stands still way out in the sticks.
On the way back from la Vegs coming into LiCEy Via the aiport road....traffic was stopped and being rerouted...i figured and accident, because the road has a deep cement trench on either side of the road..( no place to go if you leave the road surface) the detour took me the very long way around and onto the Avenue duarte(rt 14) into the middle of Li Cey...when i hit that road it was obvious what the hold up was. there was a protest going on. Tire were burning in the street garbage was all over the road and several building sites had hundreds of their cement blocks busted in the road way...it wa a maze getting by , and there were few people about until i got to the light where the airport road connect...thats where the military and police vehicles were stacked up. One being and armoured personel carrier. there was only one car on the road besides mine and we were going the same way....I wish i had my camera when i passed the soldiers kneeling on every corner some had their guns aimed at a second floor window across the street. as if they were waiting for a target to engage full riot gear..flack jackets, helmets, face shields, and FALs......
My Gf told me that she thinks it has somethign to do with the highschool........
when I get time i'll report about my stay in sosua at Sosua By The Sea for two nights......and a few trips to the stadium to watch the Aquilas win...
bob
But i do get around and I see lots of things.. This last trip I made a few excursions, one being a duck hunting up on the north coast west of Nagua, in a tidal flow swamp. What a sight...lots of wildlife...the fishermen working their nets and traps...being poled along in the shallow soft bottomed bays. saw plenty of ducks and even managed to harvest a few. The mangroves grow all around, so thick you have no idea where the shore actually is. They grow down into the water and form a set of bars preventing any passage. Since we didnt see the numbers we expected we abandoned that set up and went looking for the ducks and or sighting of them. Which led us to many thousands of acres of rice fields beign worked. Where not to our surprise we found thousands of ducks...all dead . Seems in this area the rice is planted by throwing in onto a muddy prepped field then flooded....instead of the pre grown stalk of rice being planted by hand. As such the ducks come in at night and gorge themselves on the rice.. It was said that sometimes they fields are stripped of 50% of their planted rice in a single night. So the workers spray the rice fields after they throw the rice seeds with poisons. Seems to work pretty good. Kinda makes my 4 ducks pale in comparison..HUH?
It is an adventure to be out off the beaten path...something I really appreciate. I am sure in that swamp way out back , when i walked with my waders across the flat...I walked where possibly no man has walked for hundreds of years maybe more.. The fishermen used these really rinky narrow boats that didnt look like they would last 10 minutes before they sunk....On the way back in we passed some very old wodden huts. On one insrcibed over the door was the letters S.M. with the date 9-42......history stands still way out in the sticks.
On the way back from la Vegs coming into LiCEy Via the aiport road....traffic was stopped and being rerouted...i figured and accident, because the road has a deep cement trench on either side of the road..( no place to go if you leave the road surface) the detour took me the very long way around and onto the Avenue duarte(rt 14) into the middle of Li Cey...when i hit that road it was obvious what the hold up was. there was a protest going on. Tire were burning in the street garbage was all over the road and several building sites had hundreds of their cement blocks busted in the road way...it wa a maze getting by , and there were few people about until i got to the light where the airport road connect...thats where the military and police vehicles were stacked up. One being and armoured personel carrier. there was only one car on the road besides mine and we were going the same way....I wish i had my camera when i passed the soldiers kneeling on every corner some had their guns aimed at a second floor window across the street. as if they were waiting for a target to engage full riot gear..flack jackets, helmets, face shields, and FALs......
My Gf told me that she thinks it has somethign to do with the highschool........
when I get time i'll report about my stay in sosua at Sosua By The Sea for two nights......and a few trips to the stadium to watch the Aquilas win...
bob