For several days we planned to take a nice, scenic river tour and a hike. After talking with the local Kuna Indians, we learned of a unique tour and went with our friends from Pelican Express, who are also from Ventura. We hopped into our guide's dugout canoe. We went through a river seeing many tropical birds, lizard, and man-eating crocodiles (joking).

We ended up at a tiny dock and started to walk up a very muddy trail. We came to many steep areas and ran into a lot of the "101 highways of ants". Eventually we ran into an ankle deep river. Ryan and I walked through it, happy to get all the mud off our feet, and it felt really soothing and cool. We continued and ran across many streams.
We eventually ran into a knee-deep river. Now our guide said we would walk up river for about 45 minutes (they don't use miles, everything is based on time). It was a rocky river, and was really fun to walk in. Sometimes it was ankle deep, knee deep, and even up to waist deep. Ryan and I were really excited, and were always around seventy feet ahead of the others. We luckily had sticks, which turned out to be really helpful. We might have fallen in many times without them.

In the end we finally reached the waterfall, and had a nice lunch. We took a small swim and got ready for the ascent downward. Since Ryan and I were partially wet, we didn't mind falling, so we dropped our stick and raced them down. Some river paths were shoulder deep and we had lots of fun. Since we got down about five minutes before everyone else we sat down in the river and let the cool river run past us. We then hiked back and hopped into the canoe. We got home and then headed to a nice anchorage where we had a wonderful meal of lobster (which we had just bought still flapping in the Kuna's canoe)!