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Island Hopping in a Wilderness of Waters
Speaking through images and W. Somerset Maugham, Emily captures the wild beauty of island hopping in the Pacific Gulf of Chiriqui surrounding Isla Palenque.
The other evening (an especially clear night) I stood on Playa Palenque holding up a map, trying to identify the islands I could see in the distance. On hazy days, the islands look like a purple chain of mountains on the horizon, but clear skies reveal dozens of jagged isles painted in an array of distinctive blue tones. Just when you think you’re getting to know a place…Playa Palenque is so long that as you walk from one end to another, the outlying islands seem to shift depending on where you stand – the crescent shape of the beach provides 280-degree views of the islands on the curving horizon, so that on the other end of the beach, you’re looking at a different side of each island. The longer I gazed at the archipelago, the more intricacies I could visually define, one...MORE
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Permaculture Farm
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Ocean Thrills
Island Hopping in a Wilderness of Waters
Speaking through images and W. Somerset Maugham, Emily captures the wild beauty of island hopping in the Pacific Gulf of Chiriqui surrounding Isla Palenque....MORE
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Island Hiking
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Wildlife Encounter
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Featured Photographer
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Ocean Tides
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Coral Reef
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Must-See Belize
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Native Species
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Camping
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