Harvest and Eat Seaweed with Ngobe Indians

Have you ever eaten seaweed? Have you ever harvested it? You can do this and so much more at Urraca Private Island. Van and I spent three wonderful days in this paradise with the owner Francine Roy. Check out our 4-minute video below.

A big thank you to Nuque Palacio, Elisia Mumani, Cecilio Mumani and Ignacio Bruce, four local Ngobe India's who took excellent care of us. I really wish we could have spent a few more days with you!

Emmmm... seaweed. Eat it, drink it or spread it on your skin.

Cecilio paddles me out to the seaweed farm in a traditional Ngobe canoe. BYOMS (bring your own mask and snorkle).

Check out the video at TripFilms HERE

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Amazing 10-Day Shoot In Panama & Costa Rica

We are back in New York City after an amazing 10-day shoot in Panama and Costa Rica. The post-production begins. We are expecting to finish five short travel docs which will play on TripFilms.com and compete in the Real Food Media Contest. We will keep you posted on the progress. We are making films about these two places:

La Loma Jungle Lodge & Chocolate Farm

Urraca Private Island

Huts Over Water in Panama

One of these will be our home for a few nights while we are filming in Panama. Oh, and it's on a private island inhabited by Ngobes Indians. We need to take a 45-minute boat ride from the nearest town to get here.

And there is this:

And the owner has a pet monkey (the person in this photo is a guest, not the owner):

It's going to be a great shoot! Check out this amazing place here: Urraca Private Island