(Our marina as we are leaving on the launch)

Today we rented a launch for the trip 35 miles down to the mouth of the river and the town of Livingston Guatemala.

It's only reachable by boat or ferry and is supposedly a Garifuna town, black slaves that escaped from sugar plantations in the Caribbean and ended up on the coast either harvesting hardwoods or fishing in the colonial times.



It's a quaint town, full of tourists and backpackers with a lot of restaurants and souvenir shops. It was raining most of the time we were there.

This is a look at the street from the restaurant, we had a great shrimp lunch.

Our waitress was Garifuna, one of the few we saw. We saw a lot more Maya than Garifunas working and walking around the town.

While we were walking up to the restaurant, we passed the town laundry. Just another reason that I'm glad I was born in the US, women work really hard down here.