The scenery is stunning - islands either packed with bamboo huts, or deserted, just palm trees and white sands - but it's the Kuna people who define my experience, and, luckily, Toyo has friends wherever we go.
It's also the main hub of inter-island seaborne traffic, allowing access to all of the other islands either directly, or with just one change.
Only five days for my Fiji jaunt wasn't ideal; moving among the more than 100 inhabited islands either costs a lot or takes time.
"We cannot have schools as islands, either around ethnicity or religion, not cooperating or forging partnership with other schools," he said, adding that local decisions on new schools had to take into account the need to integrate communities.
The principal mechanism of strain relief in these interfaces is the formation of three dimensional islands either directly on a bare substrate (Volmer Weber growth mode) or following the formation of an initially flat wetting layer (Stranski Krastanov growth mode).
The mainland populations originated from farmed sheep [ 6], while those on offshore islands either originated from farms, or were liberated as a food source for mariners [ 7].
Consequently, it is home to many endemic taxa that have colonized the islands either once [ 4- 10] or very few times [ 9, 11, 12].
