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This is a retrospective blog entry since we´re now up in Matagalpa on the mainland (damn ¿where is the semicolon on this keyboard? - please forgive any peculiar punctuation errors) there was no internet or even a public phone available the whole time we were on Little Corn Island. And that really sums the place up - it is a totally unspoilt Caribbean paradise bereft of any real development, beyond a handful of very rustic ´resorts´ consisting of huts made out of planks of wood and palm trees. There are no roads or cars, and the various sites around the island are connected only by a few muddy paths that cut through the jungle, including ´crab alley´ - the path leading to our beach that was filled with an assortment of crabs, frogs and fireflies every night.
There are loads of apparently stray dogs on the island (all fit and healthy thanks to a volunteer vetenary programme) offering a sort of canine escort service whereby a dog will randomly accompany you on your journey from one side of the island to the other. The other day a lovely dog, who we imaginatively named ´Él Perro´, stayed with us most of the afternoon and walked with us to Otto beach and to the fairly trecherous ´lighthouse´ viewing tower in the middle of the island. We saw him again on our last day sitting the pier when we were in the boat back to Big Corn Island - he seemed to have befriended someone else already so I refrained from shouting his name accross the dock, which would have sounded pretty weird anyway!
The locals were wonderful - most are of British West Indian decendancy and spoke a sort of loose Spanglish dialect with a thick Jamacian twang. The food, in the most part, was excellent, with the locals cooking up amazing seafood and fabulous breakfasts of french toasts, coconut bread and eggs, always served with the standard Nicaraguan staple dish of Gallo Pinto (rice with little kidney beans), and everything served in Caribbean time. Nicaraguan rum (Flor de Caña) is also a real treat - the standard bottle is a 7-year-old and costs about $5.
The weather when we arrived was extremely wet and we spent most of the first day getting caught in tropical storms and sitting on the porch of our hut. We were beginning to despair a bit, but miraculously the next day was cloudless and the rest of the week was sunny, albeit punctuated with impromptue downpours. Moral of the story is never to trust weather forecasts! Check out our photos in the Photo Albums tab above.
Anyway, I´ve clearly waffled. In short - it was amazing and exactly the start to the trip we had hoped for. Now we´re off to Matagalpa in the North before turning south to Granada and beyond.
Bye for now
R&M
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adam clarke I've had similar problems with weather forecasts for the Corn Islands. One so called 'accurate' weather forecast in particular seemed full of doom and gloom, it was basically saying it was going to rain every day for the next 6 months!! This Little Corn Island info site seems to offer some alternatives... http://www.littlecornisland.net/about-little-corn.html