The day started early with a call from Salsa and Windara: lets meet at the beach. So, by nine am we were on the beach on the larger center island between the three boats.

Yesterday when anchoring we had seen a shipping container at the bottom of a hole at the tip of the island. Being so eirie, a white rectangle below us, we moved to our current location, which is nicer anyway. Apparently there are three shipping containers in this area. What is surprising is that there is a huge shallow reef stretching for a mile between the open ocean and this spot. And this container looks as though it was carefully placed here in 43 feet of water. Anyway someone took a look at it with free dive gear and found it already open and empty...

The kids climbed a coconut tree that was leaning over looking like a row of blond headed monkeys lined up on the trunk. While the women lazed in the crystal clear water with the five kids, the guys took a dinghy out to see what the snorkeling was like on the outer reef. We hoped to find the drop off... but it was sea grass and flat for 1/2 beyond the reef, so we dove on the little coral heads around the dinghy. THe coral is in nice shape here, the first healthy looking coral we have seen although there were only small fish and not many of those.

By noon we returned to the boat and hosed ourselves off. While we were preparing lunch, an ulu (dugout canoe) came by selling pineaples, avocatos, grapefruit, oranges, mangos, boxed milk, eggs and melons. For $20 we bought two pineapples, two avocatos, two grapefruit, a mango and 2.5 dozen eggs. Pretty good for home delivery!

After lunch we all took a two hour nap!

As a note, we are making these posts via HF radio. When you complain about internet speed, consider that we can upload snd download emails at about 500 bytes a minute. (yes I wrote that right!)