Umzila: Kusuka eLas Guacamayas kuya enyakatho-mpumalanga, eduze noMfula iLacantún.
Isikhathi sokuzulazula: amahora amathathu.
Ama-Expeditionaries: abantu abangu-15, kufaka phakathi abathwebuli bezithombe, abenzi bamadokhumentari, izazi ngezemvelaphi yabantu, izazi zezinto eziphilayo, abahleli, izazi ngemvelo, ama-kayaker nabahloli bamazwe ngomsebenzi.
Yize besinqume ukuhamba ngomkhumbi entathakusa, kusithathe amahora amaningi ukwenza konke amalungiselelo futhi sishiya izikebhe sezilungile, ngakho-ke saqala uhambo lwethu ngo-1: 30 ntambama ngasemfuleni iLacantún. Kusukela ngomzuzu wokuqala sithatha izindawo zethu safaka izigwedlo zethu emanzini, sabheka nxazonke zethu ukubona ukuthi ihlathi lemvula libuthaka futhi lihle kanjani, imifula neziteshi zemvelo zilingena kuzo zonke izinhlangothi. Ukukhala kwezinkawu zaseSaraguato kubonakala ngathi kuzovalelisana nathi eLas Guacamayas… kepha bekungafani nalokho, ngoba bebehamba nathi sonke isikhathi phakathi nohambo lwamahora amathathu!
Ngaphezu kwecayuco, lapho sihamba khona ngomkhumbi, ngokushintshana, abahloli bamazwe abayisithupha abazimisele ukugwedla ngayo yonke intando yabo, sisekelwa ezinye izikebhe ezine: izikebhe ezintathu ezingafuthwa kanye ne-catamaran enezimoto. Futhi yize kunemishini eminingi kangaka, kuleli hlathi elikhulu sizizwa sincane futhi sigcwele imizwa yokuba sendaweni engaziwa iningi.
Into ebaluleke kakhulu ngalolu suku lokuqala lohambo kwakuwukubona ukuthi siyiqembu elikhulu: sonke sasinokuthile esingakusho, phakathi kokuhlangenwe nakho nezindatshana; Sonke sigwedla, sisize, sitshele ihlaya futhi futhi sithule ukubabaza, ukuhogela nokuzwa zonke izimangaliso ezinikezwa yileli hlathi.
Ngenkathi isibhakabhaka sipendwe ngombala obomvu nokububende, simemezela ukuwa kwelanga, sathola ibhishi lamatshe licashile cishe lapho singachitha khona ubusuku. Lapho samisa izikebhe sabeka amakamu lapho sasizophumula khona ekugcineni, kodwa hhayi ngaphambi kokulungiselela isidlo esimnandi ngaphansi kwenyanga egcwele! futhi sibe nezithombe ezinhle zobusuku ezithathwe nge-Mayan cayuco yethu.
