Okay perhaps this is more of a comment/addendum to Shar's last post, so it would probably have more appropriately placed as a comment to her post under the comment link. However people have rarely commented to any of the posts, so I suspect comments would not be read or perhaps none of this is being read. In any case my typing and photo uploading does provide something of a contribution to the non-profit running this Internet access.

I hooked up with the guys I played with last year. They were playing at a bar in town. The guitar player has switched to 4-string banjo. Last year he was playing a guitar built for nylon strings, strung with steel strings with the result that the top of his instrument resembled a model of a small hill.
They play totally unplugged and unmiked. Besides the string player there is a conga player, a rythm box (a carribean version of a washtub bass--a strung stick resting on a large rectangular wooden box) player and they've now added a maraca player. It was my first night out with the guys since I can remember. I bought them each a beer. The rythm box player informed he was not drinking beer, he was drinking ron & could not mix the two. I told himn to order a rum. He got a substantially impressive glass of the stuff. Fortunately it only cost me 2000 colones.

The photo is of the old harbor that gives Puerto Viejo it's name.