SV Panta Rhei Retirement Trip

I like eating. So does Karen. We've been doing it for a long time, at least 3 times per day. You would think that we had at least tasted most of the good basic fruits in the world. You would think that, but you would be wrong. How can this be?

Yesterday we took our dinghy up a jungle river and went ashore. We worked our way to a road where the fruit was literally falling in front of us as we walked. We passed by a roadside stand that was selling Rambutan. It is a red bristly round fruit that we had never tried. One sample was enough to sell the whole bunch that was being offered. It tastes like a grape...but chewier. I didn't eat the seed, but Karen tells me that tastes something like an almond. Our hiking companions from "SV Sweetie" picked up some ripe Passion Fruit and talked us into eating that. It was tart but very tasty. Today Karen returned with the girls in the anchorage and she picked up Star Fruit, Green oranges, Papaya, and Sweet Potatoes. It's all very good and very strange to our normal eating habits.

We have moved to the marina where tomorrow our sailmaker will start repairing our mainsail....at least that is the plan. For the night we have a mooring buoy and that is a good thing because the weather is forecast to get stormy and windy for a few days. Maybe tomorrow we can move to the visitor's dock, although right now there is another boat there and there isn't quite space for us.