Beautiful Day

Karl´s Pineapple Patch Our ¨family¨

Red Sky at night sailors delight...Red Sky in the morning sailors take warning...
Tonight we are watching the sunset and it is a pretty red sky so hopefully if the saying is true we will be in for another great day tomorrow.
I can also see the dive boat is out for their night dive . Karl says the diving here is really incredible. Lots to see with clear visability. I have not been diving since we first arrived, but we will see what happens in June.
Hard to believe that we have been here almost a month. (we arrived April 30). It has been a great adventure with lots of good days and some difficult days. Living like you are permanently camping can be a bit of a challenge sometimes...obviously we are surviving :)
Our puppies are turning 4 weeks old. They are absolutely adorable and quite fasinating to see the change in personalities and growth. Karl has his cat the ¨Gangsta¨and I have all the dogs :). We are having quite a bit of fun with the whole thing.
We are now back to us and another couple here at Casa Sunrise. It was awesome having a full house and we will see what the next few weeks bring us.

Karl´s Korner
Aujourdhui jai vue un coconut tomber
La mer est tourmentee depuis une semaine donc la plongee nést pas a son meilleure.
Nous contintuons de travailler sur le terrain et de decouvrir de nouveaux arbres et fruits.
Chaque ensignes indiquant le chemin pour Casa Sunrise ont ete volees ou enleve il y a de nombreuse trails pour se rendre partout sur lile a pied, et croyeq moi une enseigne te rassure de temps en temps que tu es sur le bon chemin. Notre Australien nous a conte son trip de retour a 3h du matin un peu eneche, assez comique. ¨Couldn´t find the trail mate.¨ Jen ai refait 2 a des intersections importantes.
A part ca tout va bien. Nous sommes dans une routine et il semble que le temps passe tres vite, de ja presque 1 mois que nous sommes ici. Rasta Mo va bien aussi, elle a un peu de misere avec les moustiques, mais a part ca elle est de bonne humeur. Autre petite nouvell, notre voisin a termine son canoe quil a sculpte dans un tronc dárbe, cetait incroyable de voir sa fierte lorsquil est parti pecher avec son fils cette fin de semaine. Je vous souhaite une super semaine. Saludos, Karlos

Full House

Sorry, no photo today :(

We have rented both cabins! Our first ¨Full House¨! We have one couple, Fernando from Spain & Laura from Columbia, staying for a month and Kate, Scott and Matt, from Austrailia, here for a few nights.Everyone is great and it is fun to have lots of different people around. We are really happy and excited and it definately gives us the encouragement that doing something like this is a possibility.

It has been a bit stormy over the last couple of days. Usually the beach is still & calm, but these days, it has been very rough & choppy with alot of wind & rain. They really mean that when it rains, it rains! The good part with all this rain comes fresh pineapples and avocado that we can pick right from the source here on Heiko´s place. We are really appreciating the opportunity that presented itself to us. It is really incredible to be able to live here on Little Corn and to put ourselves in the position of managing Casa Sunrise. Life is like that...it presents you opportunities and if you are open & ready, everything falls into place!

Karl´s Korner (typed by Rasta Mo)
Les ananas sont prosque pret les avocats aussi. Lárbe de papaye nous en donne une par semiane. Le Manguiers nous en donne un par jours. Banane et coconut a volonte. Lamadier aussi est tres genereux, il sagit juste de les faire secher ou simpliment prendre les seche parterre, les craquer, et deguster.

Une journee type commence par une petite marche sur la plage quelques exercices, ensuite je part le feu pour le cafe et le gruauf. Nous commencons par le menage du terrain, ramassen les branches, les coconuts. Faut dire quíl y a beaucoup de ¨socializing¨lalors le travail avance mais pas trop vite. Nous avons entrepris le menage et reparation dune cabinas. Pendant que Monike, lavait les murs je reparait les marches et changais les pentures rouillees par le vent marin (vraiement dur sur les batiments). Grace a Monika nous somme complets, elle a vraiment du talent pour mettre les gens en confiance. Si ca vous interresse de venir nous voir et vivre une belle experience sur ene ile ou le mot Wallmart et Burger Kinng nont aucune importance. Il nous tera un plaisir de vous accueillir. Ca fait 3 semaines que je nai pas regarder la t.v et le journeal alors. Je ne sais pas quelle betise Bush ou Harper ont tait encore, je sais par contre que qujourdhui je nirai pas plonger p´cquil ne fait pas tres beau.
A la proxima...Karlos

Casa Sunrise

Our first week of management of Casa Sunrise and we have had 2 couples stay with us! It has been a bit of hard work and lots of fun! It is really paradise here! We have been enjoying a Breakfast of champions...fresh picked bananas, coconut, papaya and mango with cerel! Heiko has over 10 acres of land and it is filled with fruit trees! We are really hbappy about that! The soil is also so fertile here..you can grow anything, so we plan to try! We will test out our green thumbs. We also have 6 puppies running around from Bobo the ¨guard dog¨. They are so cute!! We also have this awesome cat we call the Gangsta, just because he is the king of the land. Just what we wanted, land animals and beach! We have seen our dream come together with the practise run of managing Casa Sunrise!
The culture here on the island is so different from the Pacific side of Nicaragua. Most of the islanders speak 3 languages, English, Spanish and some form of Creole. The kids are great and they want to play and practise their English. Tourism is a fairly new adventure here and it has increased over 25% in the last year. The main economy here is fishing, but the season is closed for about 4 months, so having another option of tourism is a great alternative! The island is simple community living with the basics. There is power (sometimes), water (sometimes) and definately beautiful land and people (all the time!).
We also had the opportunity to visit on Big Corn Island which is a 30 minute Panga (boat) ride from Little Corn. There we met up with a fellow Canadian who assisted us with infor for obtaining our residency. It was great to meet him in person as well as have the opportunity to tour the island. Christian is starting his own real estate company on Big Corn called Caribbean Dream Realty. We wish him well with his business!
As the power is a bit limited as well as internet, we will be posting more sporadically! We will try our best to keep in touch! Take care and maybe we will see you soon in our island paradise!

KARL´s KORNER
Nous sommes ici a Casa Sunrise depuis 2 semaine dega dont une semaine sane le proprio. On prend soin de 3 cabinas sur le bord de la mer et croyez moi ils ont besoin de soin. Heiko le proprio nést pas tres fort sur la menweseniw, alors je raboutte ici et la. Nous avons recu nos premier cliente cette semaine. Nous les avons quasiement supplier de rester, sans farce et je pense quils nous ont paye avec un faux billet american...¨ah¨.
On le saura cette semaine. Je plonge assez souvent et le fond marin est magnifigue pas tres profond et plein de vie. En ce moment nour avous assez d´ouvrage comme ca je prend mon temps. Pas délectricite seulement un panneaux solaire pour 3 cabina et 1 bodega, 1 puits avec une eau excellente, la cuisine se fait aux bois de marche de lágglumeration. En ¨ville¨ lélectricite fonctionne 4 heures par jours, alors internet ici´nést pas accessible et tres cher.
Saludos, Karlos
( We apologize in advance, because I typed Karl´s Korner so if there are mistakes, it is my fingers, not Karl :))

Little Corn Island ~ Caribbean Paradise!

We have been here for almost 1 wee and what a beautiful, tranquil paradise. We are staying at a place called Casa Sunrise located at the north end of the island. This beautiful place was named by the Dali Lama in 1997 as the Compassion Centre as the owner Heiko Rah is a budhist and wanted to make this place a paradise to "chill out" and come back to ourselves. I think he succeded!
It is situated on 180 degrees of beach where you can see both the sunrise in the morning and the sunset in the evening without having to leave the beach! Incredible. Karl and I are going to be living and running Casa Sunrise for the next couple of months because the owner is heading back to Germany. We are really happy to have this pleasure. It works out for Heiko and also gives us the experience and joy of living in such a beautiful place. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like more information about the place...we would love to share and even see you here!
On another note, I also experienced my first ever dive! Can you believe it we saw nurse sharks! I almost full on one, because I was having a tough time staying equalized, but I survived! It is such an incredible sensation being underwater, breathing and seeing all this amazing life under the water! It was my first, but definately not my last!
That is it for today from Little Corn, but stay tuned for more!