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Sunday, June 11, 2006

Little Corn Island


Lobster traps line a village path in the off season. The Corn Islands' main industries are tourism, fishing, and fishing for "langosta blanca," bags of cocaine that wash ashore on these Caribbean islands. Drug traffickers plying the waters between Colombia and the U.S. throw their stashes overboard in the event that they are chased by authorities.

Travelers generally have Little Corn Island's beaches to themselves, including this swath of the North Shore.