Suriname

We are currently in Trinidad after a four day, 520 nm trip from Suriname. We checked in here, anchored out for a few days, then decided to come into the marina at Peake’s. We’re hauling out on Monday for a week or two. Right now we are enjoying a very reasonably priced marina with free electricity, water, wifi and amazing customer service!

Catching up on pictures…

 We drove to the capital of Suriname, Paramaribo, and took a self-guided walking tour. We started at the tourist office, picked up a really nice map and headed to the closest attraction which was Fort Zeelandia. We walked through one of the adjacent museums but it was all in Dutch. The lady in the museum took the time to explain about 80 percent of it to us. It was a museum about a Dutch plantation manager and writer, Willem Eduard Herman.

Then onto Fort Zeelandia, also all in Dutch:

http://cityofparamaribo.com/read/Fort_Zeelandia

Then onto Independence Square. Every Sunday, they have song bird competitions. We missed that but did manage to see the square:

Presidential Palace:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Palace_of_Suriname

Ministry of Finance:

National Assembly:

Random pictures around town:

National Bank of Suriname:

St Peter and Paul Cathedral, the largest wooden structure in the western hemisphere. We couldn’t get in because we were wearing shorts. Five degrees north of the equator we were wearing shorts…for-shame. I just stuck the phone through the door and snapped some terrible pictures. It was really beautiful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter_and_Paul_Cathedral

Dutch Reformed Church. The church was under renovation but we snuck in an open door and took some pictures…and when we go home in January we’re buying a real camera:

http://cityofparamaribo.com/read/Dutch_reformed_church

The church was built over a cemetery, so there are graves in the floor of the church:

Post Office:

Random pictures of Paramaribo:

I love our cell phone company, Digicel:

We also love De Stadsslager, a butcher shop with the most amazing cuts of meat:

Another random pic of Paramaribo:

After our day in the city, we returned to Domburg. Dea Latis on a mooring:

The next day we headed further inland to Waterland Marina:

We almost had the place to ourselves:

That is a resort on the river and that fence in the water keeps the piranha out of the swimming area:

That brown splotch in the middle of the picture is a howler monkey:

I tried to bait him down with some tiny bananas but he just yawned, looked away, and muttered something about perpetuating stereotypes…

…and that evening Tanya made vegetarian stuffed eggplant which was insanely delicious!