Following in our project “Exploring the 12 Lagoons Coastal of the State of Nueva Esparta” we now registered “Laguna la Acequia”. Follow this link to the Video of Laguna La Acequia Hugely grateful for Jemimah Rivera @bio_zoe’s invitation to the fantastic @Ave_Zona workshop led by the expert Josmar Esteban Márquez @birdnaturalart aimed at developing the […]

After the success achieved in 2022 with 27 presentations in two days of Congress and a musical show by Miguel Serra -Cultural Heritage of the Nation- and his group Cuerdas Espartanas, and again courtesy of the Wyndham Concorde Margarita Hotel and the Casa de la Cultuta Pueblo de la MAR «Ramón Vasquéz Brito», returns to

It was a tradition that on the day of “San Juan” (June 24), on the beaches of Margarita, the fishermen would meet without prior notice to run the little boats made of balsa wood nd sails that they built during rest times and decorated with cloth flags. Of course there was music and Rum. The

We changed several bad boards, sanded, patched, caulked and painted everything, the underwater body with anti fouling, the wood with varnish. We also lowered the mast, patched up some cracks with epomon and varnished. It is already anchored again and looking beautiful on the pier of the Concorde marina in Porlamar. Now we only need

We are underway with the recuperation of the Orejeta, its a slow process replacing one by one all of its pieces of wood to maintain its original shapes with one exception, we are bringing her side edges up 10 cm for a bit safer navigation due to the fact that we will be sailing her

Our Piragua was letting in too much water so we once again paddle it to Pampatar to ground her and perform necessary maintenance After a bit more of a year in the water La Piragua is undergoing its first major maintenance.

Paddling & Sailing day in honor of or Virgen del VAlle During the traditional yearly parade on September the 8th 2022 in honor of The “Virgin of the Valley” Margarita Island “patrona” on mariners Almost a 100 fisherman gather in Pampatar in their boats to pay tribute to the Virgen del Valle and cruise together

“La Orejeta”, the smallest of the fishermans boats in Margarita Island, this one in particular was the last one that sailed and was meant to be used for fire wood before we where able to rescue her and plan for its restoration. Here pictured in the village of “Espin” in Cariaco, where our allies from

To keep costs down, the Piragua was built in Cariaco in the mainland coast. In August, 2021, our tribe gathered together, in our allies @Astigolca riverside carpentry shop where it was built, for a crash course on rowing. Then —after a proper launching Ceremony— we paddled her 170 kilometers to her home port in Pampatar,