Monday, 15 February. Today was a fantastic day. Sunday we sailed from Nargana to Pugadup, an island noted in the guidebook “for day anchorage or settled weather only.” It is actually a fairly short section of reef with one large island and two smaller islands stretched behind it. The guidebook suggested anchoring in 25' off the Southeast corner of the smaller island. We really could not find a comfortable anchorage there and instead came over to the larger island where we dropped the hook in a strip of sand about 20' deep with coral on both sides. After we were securely anchored, we took the dinghy in to explore and found that there was actually a pass with adequate water (at least 8') all the way in inside the reef with a small lagoon to anchor in 9-10' over grass and sand. We checked it all out by dinghy and then went back out and took the big boat in SLOWLY and CAREFULLY and finally ended up anchored just perfectly hanging between shore, the reef and the shallows. The anchor was not very well dug in as we had never really pulled on it and we were effectively anchored by the kellet, so I manually dug the anchor in while swimming (it was only 9' of water.) What an idyllic spot! Beautifully sandy beach with towering palms, beautiful water, and waves crashing on reefs all around us! It doesn't get much better than this. It has now been about 30 hours and we have not moved more than about 10”. The bridle goes straight down to the bottom and the kellet is just setting there. We turn a little East or South but that is it. We swam; we took the Nystrom's inflatable kayak and paddled in to shore and walked the shore line. We had a delightful Valentine's day dinner of pizza and beer (I even made a heart shaped section for Deb). It was a beautiful night with lots of stars out as we lay in the net and drank a toast to this incredible life we have together. Today we had a very laid back day. I spent most of the morning reading (I don't remember the last time that happened!) Deb did some laundry. In the afternoon we snorkeled the reef directly in front of the boat. Swimming around to the outside, we found beautiful coral and fish. Inside we found lobster. I found a fairly large one hiding under some coral in about 7' of water and eventually speared it, but as I was retrieving it, it wiggled off the spear and escaped. I looked as hard as I could, but could not find where it went. Too bad as I suspect it was mortally wounded. We had just located another lobster when a native boat came by and offered to sell us lobster they had caught. We bargained a bit and I ended up buying 5 really nice size lobsters for $25. Two made a meal tonight with some leftovers. I also made some bread today as we finally ran out of the store bought bread. We have plenty of frozen meat, a good supply of limes, pineapples, and melon, some veggies and lots of ice. We are good for at least another week before we need to find the veggie boat or a store. The snorkeling was so great today that we decided to stay where we are at least another day and dig out the hookah. With depths going down to ~30' on the outside of the reef, it will be perfect. And we still haven't begun exploring the windward side of the island. Eventually we will go to Isla Tigre and do some mola shopping as well as refreshing our veggie/fruit supply, but whether that happens in two days or ten doesn't really matter.