Photos from our annual trip to Sonsón, Antioquia, Colombia, to distribute Christmas gifts to the children and elderly families. As always a very emotional time.
Wednesday 28 November 2018
Thursday 8 November 2018
Urabá Antioquia Colombia - 8th November 2018
Urabá Antioquia is a sub-region in the Colombian Department of Antioquia. The region is made up by 11 municipalities. Most of this regions northern portion is part of the Colombian Caribbean Region bordering the Caribbean sea and the gulf of Urabá
The Wildlife
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| Banana Tree Frog |
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| Spectacled Caiman |
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| Three Toed Sloth (Can you see the baby?) |
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| Red Tailed Squirrel |
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| Great Egret |
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| Yellow Billed Cuckoo |
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| Black Vulture |
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| Black Chested Jay |
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| Blue Heron |
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| American Kestrel |
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| Tropical Mockingbird |
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| Yellow Headed Caracara |
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| White Peacock |
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| Two Pupil Satyr |
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| Plain Satyr |
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| Orb Weaver Spider |
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| Earwing Assassin Bug |
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| Yellow Spot Millipede |
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| Dragonlet |
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| Giant Ameiva |
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| Common Basilisk |
The Plantations
The following pictures are from the loading docks which containerise the fruits and send them for loading onto container ships for Europe and the United States.
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| Refrigerated containers loaded onto barges. |
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| The barges are towed by a tugboat out to the Gulf of Uraba for loading onto the ships. |
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| Local fishermen in the gulf with a container ship anchored in the distance. |
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| Part loaded container ship |
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| A container of Bananas being loaded from the barge onto the container ship |
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| Newly planted pineapple seedlings (have to wait 18 months for a pineapple) |
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| Nearly mature pineapples |
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| The finished product |
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| Picking the fruit is done by hand |
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| The fruits are loaded into metal containers to be transported to cleaning, sorting and packing. |
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| Bananas are grow in tropical climates. Here a drainage channel is being dug to take away excess water from tropical storms. |
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| This is a transport system for moving people, materials and Bananas around the plantation. |
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| Light aircraft are used to fumigate the plantations |
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| New Banana plants |
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| More new Banana plants |
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| Washing station. Here a 'Great-tailed Grackle' is taking advantage of the insects washed of the bananas |
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| Bananas being transported to the washing, sorting and packing stations. |
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| Bananas being sorted for either export, domestic use in Colombia or for recycling into compost. |
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| Labels being added to the Bananas |
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| Bananas being packed. This box is destined for the United Kingdom |
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| Bananas for domestic consumption being loaded onto trucks. |
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| Beautiful plant growing on the plantation (sorry I still need to identify it) |
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| Dot-leaf Waterlilly |
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