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SailBlog: Jungle Medics

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SailBlog: Jungle Medics
Last week John and I had the priviledge of hosting a group of medical students from LSU who where here, on the Rio Dulce in Guatemala, to volunteer their time with a program called Jungle Medics Mission, a very worth while cause founded by Bryan Buchanan. Jungle Medic Mission hosts teams of doctors, dentists, and other medical personnel in order to provide medical and dental care for Mayan Indians living in remote villages in the jungles, mountains and along the Rio Dulce River in Guatemala. They needed a few boats to go up river to Lago Izabal so the students would have a place to stay overnight. The village they were attending was very remote and too difficult, if not impossible, to get to by truck. We had a great time hosting the young men on our boat for the 4 hour trip up river and we enjoyed a great happy hour or two after the mission. Later that evening we had dinner on board Steel Magnolia and had a chance to mingle with the med students on the other boats (Steel Magnolia and Against the Wind). We did have one hair raising experience on the lake when, around 3pm, a squall kicked up 35+ knots of wind seemingly out of no where, and we began to drag- fast- toward the shore. Thank goodness the old engine cranked right up or the story might have been different. As it turned out all is well and we have have added yet one more valuable experience to our knowledge base. Lago Izabal is beautiful. It is huge, 22 miles long and 10 miles wide, surrounded by mountains. We anchored at the far end. The next morning we had a beautiful cruise back to the Rio and home to Monkey Bay. Full Story »

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