Martín pealing rice the old-fasion way

Alejandro and is team of oxen ready to work.

Bringing the oxen to the sugar cane field.

Cutting sugar cane.
Loading the oxcart

unloading the cane. this is the machine that squeezes the juice out. The oxen are attached to one end of the wooden beam and walk in circles for hours while the cane is fed through the machine and the juice draines out into a big plastic bucket.

Boiling down the cain juice in a cauldron held in place by dry mud and rocks

Cleaning up from a morning of juice making. You can see the it boiling in the background.

My friend Matt who lives by the beach is friends with a really nice german woman named Erica who owns a horse riding tour company directly on Junquillal Beach. She generously invited us over for dinner and to go riding last week.

Notice how dry and brown everything is this time of year. A lot of the trees have even lose their leaves due to a lack of water.

Me trying to look like a cowboy.

Matt and Erica staging some photos in a mangrove swamp.

Matt and Erica running down the beach.

Sunset on the beach.

This was a little tornado traveling right down the main road in my town. It started out a lot bigger but by the time I got my camera out it had pretty much gone away. I think the horse was getting ready to run if it got any closer.