Saturday. 20 August, 2011 Since we have not been sailing, I have not updated the blog, but today was just such a perfect day that I just had to share it. To start with, we had thunderstorms overnight. Rain was actually pretty mild and thunder and lightening was a ways off, but it was great to sleep by the sound of rain on the roof and the cool air helped as well. The morning dawned bright and sunny. As planned, we went to Red Frog beach for the day with our neighbors, Paula & Bill. Red Frog is one of the most beautiful beaches in all of the Bocas del Toro archipelago and we keep promising ourselves that we will come here more often, but somehow life intervenes and it has been almost two months since our last outing here. The weather was great – sunny and warm with a moderate on-shore breeze. The surf was mild but we still found some good waves to catch. And the beach was great to walk as always. Punta Lava, the local beach bar, had live music from 2:00-4:00. It turned out to be rather ho-hum, but is was worth a walk to the bar and a listen for a bit. By 4:00 we were exhausted from body surfing and swimming in the surf and came home. As we were taking the final few steps to our house, the heavens just opened up with an incredible down pour. It rained like that for about a half hour and then quit as suddenly as it began, melding into a beautiful evening that was cool and calm. We had a great day at the beach, the sun filled our batteries and the rain filled our water tanks – what could be better? Truly a great day in paradise. I think we usually are aware of what a wonderful life we lead, but days like today really bring it home! We are so lucky to have each other and to live in this wonderful place we call home.