Last of the Suriname pictures…

The Suriname River, North of Paramaribo, is quite peaceful most of the time. Once in a while there is some pretty big traffic, and when they are going fast they put out quite a wake. River traffic:

Dirt barges run around the clock, taking dirt from inland and bringing it out to the coast for construction projects:

We rented a car again and went driving around looking for a nature trail I read about. We found it, it had been closed since 2014. Evidently nobody kept it up, it is overgrown and the walking bridges are not safe anymore.

The trial was partially funded by Alcoa Aluminum. This is the aluminum plant, which is shutting down and will be sold to the government in November.

So with no trail to walk we drove around the countryside for a while just looking around. Then we came back to this Cafeteria across from Alcoa:

We were really looking forward to the Pitjel (having fun with Dutch) but they were out so we just got the Kip Sate, and it was delicious!

On the way home we stopped at Rene’s for a haircut. He was awesome, three generations of barbers cut hair in this shop. That’s Rene inside, older man, perfect hair, very well dressed and a master with scissors:

This is another restaurant we frequented right around the corner from Domburg Resort. The food was better for half the price. Mit Shiv:

We also found this chandlery half way to Paramaribo. Third generation family operation. They started out in shipping and eventually had eight ships. Commercial ships are required to be properly maintained so the father would keep large amounts of spare parts on his ships. So many people came to him looking for spares he decided to capitalize on it and opened this store. Very nice family, we spent quite a bit of time in there just talking with them:

Then we dropped almost three thousand dollars (Suriname) on five gallons of Jotun bottom paint. Good price but still…ouch:

The Vijftig Dollar just doesn’t go as far as it used to:

We stopped by the Peperpot Nature Reserve. This used to be a plantation hundreds of years ago, now it’s a nature park with trails through the jungle.

We were going to climb this tree but it was getting kind of hot out so we took a pass:

Another dinghy ride up the river. We came across these two ships which had been there for some time:

Another resort:

…with Piranha fence:

…and we found these delicious fruit that resemble a grapefruit only four times larger:

They’re milder tasting than grapefruit, very juicy and sooooo goood:

Full moon over the Suriname River:

And that’s it for Suriname. As mentioned previously, we’re in Chaguaramas Trinidad now. This is a working port for us. We are hauling out tomorrow at Peake’s Yacht Services, and will be on the hard for about seven to ten days while we paint the bottom and fix up a few things.