Found food: coconuts
Well, we've hit the dry season, I guess! The chance of rain today is down from August's 90% to 73%. The humidity is down from August's 90% to 74%. The temperature is up (rising from high 80's to high 90's). Welcome to summer in Panama!
When I first got to Panama, I had a bunch of found-food adventures: nísperos (loquats), guanábanas, "pipas" (immature coconuts) and platanos. I'm no longer walking through the bit of a forest that had been my shortcut, and also we have emerged from the middle of the rainy season, and that meant that loquats and guanábanas are gone and I don't visit platanos and coconut trees as regularly.
My AirBnB host has banana and starfruit trees growing in his back yard, so I do get to eat local in that sense, but the closest I've come to "found food" is a tree on our evening walk that has some kind of citrus-y fruit that drops to the ground; I tried it, but can't identify it and am not overly taken with it.
But then, when we visited the islands around Coiba, I discovered another found-food aficionado!
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The island where we had lunch. |
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Smash! Smash! Smash! |
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Mr. Adventure demonstrates the coconut within the coconut. |
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A close-up of the opened coconut. |
Actually, Mr. Adventure opened two coconuts for me, because I was so incredibly taken with seeing him do the found-food thing on the first one, so he demonstrated in slow-mo again while I took pictures and asked questions. The second coconut was a bit riper, and the embryo on that one was pale white.
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A second coconut, revealed. |
And that's my latest, very happy, found food experience!
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