Catamarans, sunsets, and composting miracles

Today was a very busy moto day. I started by completing the next steps for acquiring a new investment property that we've decided on. I met one of our past buyers and helped set him up with a cartaker for his new property and checked on the home of another past buyer. 

I also spoke with the local Ecuadorian Coast Guard regarding license requirements for small sailing craft. Turns out that it should be quite easy with minimal paperwork required in Bahia (about 30 minutes away). 

As fate would have it, I ran into Walter, a boat-builder/fisherman in the midst of building his own fiberglass fishing boat. Excellent. Over the next couple days we'll be coming up with a plan for building my first beach cat! I'll be hunting down suppliers for rigging/sails and am very excited to create a small business that employs locals, builds a regional coastal sailing community, and provides high quality beach cats to those who are interested! 

Here's a photo of Walter with his fishing boat under construction.

Last night lights went out again as the road to Crucita gets finished up... an impromptu candlelight dinner was a very nice result

This evening on the beach we found some soft coral that had washed up and was particularly well lit by the...

setting sun.

Tonight became  particularly exciting by Lynn's discovery that the creatures turning our food scraps into rich compost are black soldier fly larvae!!! That's exciting because alot of folks have found that these larvae are incredible composters, the flys aren't attracted to humans or human homes, and the crazy little larvae harvest themselves from the compost... i.e. they walk a plank into a container where they'll wait to be fed to the neighbors chickens!  We've spent a good chunk of the evening exploring their virtues.... motivated by the fact that they do best at temperatures above 68F... which is where we stay most of the year here on the coast.  Check out this video and prepare to be really impressed... best not to do this while snacking on pasta, rice, or any other size/color-related food... or really any food....

"The Boca" come sundown

Worked on the website a bit today then headed out on the moto in the evening to check on some house renovations going on for a previous buyer.  It was low tide when I pulled up.  Couldn't help but go for a stroll on the beach to watch the shore birds working on the exposed tidal flats.

Quite a beautiful sunset with the sun dropping its rays through the clouds. I shared that beach with one other person, a local fisherman wandering the coastline... I think he was grabbing oysters from a nearby outcrop while the tide was at its lowest point.

Here's Bill's place nearing completion! He has the nicest down to earth place on this stretch of beach. I'll be sure to post some "before" photos soon!