Barillas Marina with boats on mooring buoys
as seen  from the clubhouse.

MV Heather K. at the Texaco fuel dock
as seen from Barillas Marina clubhouse.

The panga from Barillas Marina that meets you at an
 offhsore waypoint.  It guides you past the breakers
 and across the shallow bar.

Village in the first lagoon past the breakers.
Here the water depth increases to 20 ft.

The volcanoes rise a few miles behind Bahia Jaquilisco.

 SV Karina D moored to a buoy and a rising moon.

The Barillas vans on the road to Usulutan for shopping.

A wild game of Mexican Train in the clubhouse.

The only remaining spider monkeys in El Salvador 
live in the trees near the marina.

Our temporarily adopted grandchildren, Samantha (9),
Hank (7), Jack (1), and their parents Mark and Valorie. 

Captain Ed with stalks of sugar cane.

Captain Ed hard at work by the pool,
 plugged into an internet connection.

Norma chipping away mortar to save bricks for rebuilding.
The cruisers adopted a village after the earthquake
 and are helping to rebuild it.

A small boy carrying a recovered brick to the storage pile.
The village adopted by the cruisers is called Lourdes and is
the home of workers on a coffee plantation up the side of a volcano.
 

A grandmother and her offspring.  All nine homes in the
village suffered major earthquake damage.  Most relief agencies concentrated on the big cities, with little help
 given to the rural areas.

The villagers had to get water by carrying it several
 miles uphill from a small stream since their waterline
 broke in the earthquake