Yesterday we sailed to Nargana to reprovision, take on water and diesel, and renew our friendship with Federico, whom we mentioned in several blogs last year.

Sure enough, when we sailed in to the harbor, there was Federico, in his Ulu, visiting other cruisers to offer his services. We recognized him immediately and he soon came over to our boat. We shared some stories about previous experiences, and Federico offered to help us with water and diesel, and we were soon on land. We had a nice lunch with him at a local restaurant, visited a vegetable market where we also bought chicken, and finished by getting 20 gallons of diesel and 6 gallons of drinking water.

Today we are waiting for full supply of water, and both tanks are completely empty. We started doing laundry, and are hoping that the guy who has water will come soon.

He's here, with his panga full of 55 gallon drums of water. We remove the water out of the open drums by bucket, one bucket at a time, 165 gallons in total. We have the tanks full in less than an hour. It's quite a process, but we are very happy to have water again.

We finish the wash and get ready to leave Nargana for Green Island where we will spend a few days before going to the East Lemmons to pick up our friends from England, Fred and Beryl, who are arriving on the 29th.