so today we aimee started the day with a swim to our little island to do yoga on the beach followed by a hike up the mountain. you can just barley see her in the island photo so i added a blow up as well! after the yoga event and breakfast we headed out of the not very good anchorage to this inviting little island for our beach fun day. the Anchorage off the island turned out to be even rolly-er than the one we where in but the island was beautiful. it reminded me a bit of the south pacific with broken up coral plates on the windward side of it.
aimee and jen when snorkeling to see if they could catch anything to augment the conch. they actually found a lobster (which jen calls a crawfish) and gave a go at catching it but it was too fast and too small. jen put together a delicious conch curry with rice and we headed to shore for our bocci ball picnic event. it was a close match but i think in the end sietse and jen won with the final throw in the surf! we did a little exploring and discovered a Russian Rocket booster washed up on the beach. it was actually half buried looked like it would have been about 4 meters in diameter. it looked pretty new, ie no rust and still had paint on the side. we wanted to take a photo but alas no camera!
the paln had bee for a bbq on palapa for dinner but the anchorage was so rolly we decided to try yet another spot back inside the lagoon. this time we anchored behind a couple of islands but it was not optimal. we had sausage and eggplant and spicy roger bbq sauce. aimee also came up with a new “drink”. just cut a passion fruit in half loosen the innards from the shell and add some dark rum. you slurp it out of the shell like an oyster very tasty and health too!
tomorrow we will try to find a better anchorage and perhaps some civilization.
Roger
I hope you find a protected anchorage or something, as tropical depression #5 is coming across there and expected to reach huricane force very shortly!
Dad H.