Monday morning and we are anchored in a small bay called Punta Cocos. We arrived yesterday afternoon after a short trip 5 miles south to get some protection from the south winds and SW swells at the previous anchorage. We got 3 different canoe loads of people trying to sell fruit etc. We asked for a papaya and got a fruit we don't recognize. Instead of football shaped it is completely spherical and very green and hard. One of Connie's cookbooks suggests it may be more of a vegetable. We are letting it ripen a bit. We also got oranges that are colored green but we were ready for that as it is what we had when we lived in St. Vincent. (We made juice).
Earlier when we had been walking Mogu Mogu we found what appears to be a genuine "Survivor" torch. It has a metal cone riveted and attached to a 6ft wooden shaft decorated with tribal symbols and more metal bands. They have filmed survivor on Mogu so it is possible? Denny and Becky came over for dinner at dusk last night rowing their dinghy and with the lit survivor torch. They have never seen the show but seem to be into it, so I need to find an episode from survivor Panama and show it to them.
Poor Connie has bites all over her body from what we don't know. We checked with Kokomo and Becky has the same. Neither of the men have bites. We have been very lucky in Panama to this point with bugs and have not been using the window screens, but last night we screened up and lit a bug coil inside the boat to repel the critters. They are not mosquitoes but may be "no seeums" although why they bite only females I don't know. Of course my skin is like leather from a year in the sun?