MyShadowProductions #65 - Honduras/Loma de Luz Day 6

Hola again and Feliz (Happy) Rainy Season!

For today’s adventure I decided to hike up the mountain and explore where the water for Loma de Luz comes from. Basically, there is a Spring high on the mountain and Loma de Luz made some sort of agreement with the owners in the area to capture some of that water and pipe it down by gravity to some storage tanks. From the storage tanks the water is chlorinated and piped down to the Loma de Luz complex of buildings. Due to the substantial difference in elevation it is necessary to use pressure reducers on the system downstream.

As you will see in the movie/videos, the first section of the hike is along a nice road of pavers with a stone wall drainage ditch. The homes you see are for missionary nurses, doctors, administrators, etc. that may have families and need 3,4 or 5 bedrooms.

After the paved road it turns to gravel up to the storage tanks and from that point on it changes to green jungle :) A lot of different greens with the colorful reddish soil and varied tree trunk colors.

The following movie/video is up the mountain as far as I could go. I stopped at the tree with red paint and barbed wire. I will have to check and see if it ok to go beyond that point on a future day. Here is the UP movie/video:

You may have noticed that the water from the spring comes downhill in a pair of black pipes (2 inch diameter each?) and leaves the tanks in a heavier white pvc pipe (also 2” diameter?) When walking you can actually hear the water running in the black pipes!

The next movie/video is walking back down the mountain. Close to the end I take a different path to get back to my room. Here is the DOWN movie/video:

The entire hike took a little over an hour so it was approximately a 3 mile round trip.

Here are a couple more movie/videos using the iPhotos memory movie tool:

Remember the photo where you can see Cayos Cochinos? 

Those islands in English are called Hog Islands :) Click here to see a cool video about the Cayos Cochinos by a professional video maker (I am jealous) :)

By the way, on the hike down about midway I thought one of my eyeglass lens was blurred with water. As I reached to dry it, I realized the lens was gone! I backtracked about 100 ft or so past where I had taken my last photo, but no luck. I gave up and started back down and in about 15 feet I looked down and saw the lens :) I don’t know how much karma I used up on that “blind” luck?? Here is a photo where the lens was, can you find it in the photo?

I do have an extra pair of eyeglasses with me but it was a relief to find the lens.

No time change here, they are on Central Standard Time the year round. I didn’t need that extra hour of sleep anyway! :)