so today the first thing on the agenda was to drop off the propane. i arrived 30 minutes early which was no drama but i was totally taken aback when she said it would be 70 ec per tank! these are little 5kg tanks and 70ec is about $25 so $50 yikes. we really had no choice but i think this was even more expensive than egypt! back on palapa aimee was finishing up yoga and seites and jen where...
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last night we had a TON of rain. very nice to clean the boat out but so much our various window leaks all kicked in getting a variety of things wet. we also ot hammered again by mosi’s. this is a new deadly and super small super fast type. aimee killed one but another terrorized us all night preventing much sleep. i got up before dawn to get us under way but of course it was raining...
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as you can see from the last few posts we have been really getting the most out of the last few days and again run up against the jimmy buffet dogma “i cant run at this pace very long”. so today rather than leave first thing in the morning for our next destination we decided to take a day off and recover. aimee and i went to “town” about 20 meters from the moorings dock...
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well today turned out to be another pretty full day. we started out with a bit of work. larry thanks for the glasses i am using them more and more now. aimee did make me put a shirt on for this shot. this was followed by banana smoothies for breakfast. did i mention we had too many bananas thanks to sietse not having any small change the night before. yes sietes is naked in the dingy, he...
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we got an email from seats and jen that they where going to marigot bay today so after a bit of “discussion” on our pans we decided to go join them. it was a great broad reach back with about 20kts of wind on the beam. i put aimee in charge and managed to make myslef sesick working on the computer down below. we got up to 3 meter swells between the islands where we where exposed to...
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