We just finished our surveying offshore of where the fault broke along the southern peninsula or "presque Isle" of Haiti. There is an area that is extremely rugged with a deep canyon and rather high mountains (inland from Grande Goave). It looks too rugged for people to live in, but around late afternoon a number of smoke plumes issue from high on the steep slopes. If it was Colorado I would think: "how nice, the skiers have started fires in their fireplaces and are having a drink and drying their socks". But, here, it seems likely that they are camping because their houses collapsed and they are cooking dinner. I've read that it may have been like this before the quake; Haiti is denuded by cutting all the trees for charcoal and firewood.

Why lead a couple of us to wonder of the dugout log canoes are very old, or if not, where they get their large logs. There were several of these canoes like a km from shore the other day. There were lots of them the last time I saw them, on and on the beaches of Lake Tanganyika and Lake Malawi, in 1985.

Chris