Our first visitor's in the Lemmons Cays arrived via cayuco and were a family of one grandmother and two young children. The sky was about to open up as the grandmother motioned to come aboard, so Capt Mark carried the children on board and the Kuna Mujer proceeded to tell us that these were her grandchildren and their parents had died. The children were poorly dressed. One of the children, a boy, was about 1 year old and the other his sister was 8 or 9 years old. They were in need of help - the young boy had been bitten by a dog in a few places, and the wounds were not healing well at all. Of course the Mujer had items to sell including Molas, shells, Godseyes and jewelry. Our hearts broke for these little ones as we bandaged them up, gave them drinks, cookies, pasta and sauce. We bought items from the Mujer and Capt Mark gave her some money to take the child to the doctor. We did all we could and the family set out in their cayuco to another remote island where they lived.
Our next guests were in a huge cayuco that was running out of gas. They had a load of freshly caught fish in their boat and they wanted to trade for fuel. Capt Mark came up and checked out the situation, he gave the men a gallon of gas for 4 mackerel. Mark and Mike helped them transfer a gallon of gas into their tank; they thanked us, gave us some fish and headed away. Unfortunately, they did not give us the fish we wanted – the fish that they gave us was a type of mackerel that was very bloody. We decided to toss it overboard since the fish book said they were not very tasty and rarely eaten. Nonetheless, we had a fantastic dinner of Lobster Tails & Yellowfin Tuna and hit the sack hoping that our attempts to help the Kuna that day were successful.
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