Nicaragua – Exploring the Miskito Coast by Foldable Sea Kayak –

“Peeling away from the pier , I let out an elongated sigh of relief . Birds chirped above us , my paddle sliced gracefully through the blackwater of the lagoon —this is exactly what we came for .”

found ourselves on the Miskito Coast by accident. In 2015, after completing a packrafting expedition in the Nicaraguan rainforest, we wound up in the ramshackle port town of Puerto Cabezas, or “Port,” as the locals call it, on the Atlantic coast.The day was scorching hot with unrelenting heat waves, so hanging near a crumbling pier opting for more water time seemed only natural. Before long we stumbled upon an elderly tribal fisherman commuting down the coast to his village in his rusty, weathered panga. Perplexed eyes turned towards us when we asked if we could join him, but reluctantly, he agreed. “It will be very long and slow,” he warned over and over. He couldn’t have been more right. It took us eight hours to teeter