| Placido a transgender male with his vulture design |
| Lina, a Kuna woman wearing traditional headscarf, gold jewelry and long string of beads wound around her arms and legs |
| Even young children can sew beautiful molas, or at least are a great marketing ploy! |
| In the San Blas Islands of the Kuna Yala district, the Kuna bring their molas, beadwork, and painted gourds to sell |
| The Kuna are expert sailors, especially so with sails from old sheets, grain bags or plastic tarps |
| Donata's intricate hummingbird could not be passed up! |
| Shy Adonisio brought a pair of molas of pelicans eating fish |
| Odalisia had sewn pairs of monkeys and octopi |
| Gerencia presented a pair of large flying fish in a very traditional style |
| Great! After Barb had just about blown her whole wad on molas, along came the world famous Lisa, a transgender master mola maker, and her friend Acevis |
| This wildcat mola by Acevis is every bit as fine as Lisa's |
| Lisa does exquisite needlework |
| A traditional palm hut on Chichime in the Lemmon Cays, San Blas |
| Ramirez, 80 years old, sells coconuts and hand carved wooden ship models |
| Everybody travels by dugout one-piece wooden cayucos |
| A coconut island well-tended by the Kuna men |
| After Barb really had run out of money for molas, she was tortured by Venasio (L), Idelfonso and Leonisio (R) |
| A large extended Kuna family (from L) Husband and wife with 2 kids, and her sister with 4 kids |
| Qué Bárbara! is visited by a whole family in the anchorage off Banedup in the western Lemmon Cays |
| San Blas sunset |
| Merry Christmas 2007 |
| Santa Claus is coming to San Blas |
| For cheese fondue on New Year's Eve we kneaded bread |
| Barb bakes bread from scratch for the first time in her life! (No, those are not dead sea cucumbers!) |
| Barb looks like she started New Year's a little early! |
| Bob whipping up his famous New Year's Eve cheese fondue |
