The exploration continues
18 July 2013 | Davao, Philippines
Bill/ Overcast
Last nights dinner provided by a local family consisted of a hamburger/stringbean combination with a sauce and rice to put it on. Add on steamed Carrots, long beans and Cauliflower. Add on a chicken soup with big chunks of chicken. For a desert of coconut milk and Pandanus. A nice spread for just $175 pesos(about $4.00 US). Afterwards, the games for the evening was darts. We bowed out at that time and headed back for Zephyr as big bolts of lightening and winds were starting to come at the marina from the North. We zipped up the sides of the dodger and battened down the hatches and just waited as we watched the CBS evening news on our computer. The winds intensified and waves started crashing against the North side of the breakwater going at least 6 feet above them is a spray. We actually had waves with boats bobbing back and forth inside the well protected marina. About an hour later it was all gone and calm returned to the area.
This morning, we headed into town on a special trip set up by the marina to S & K store. It's just like a Costco or Sam's. Lots of oversized goods and a bunch of things from Costco on the shelves. We made the trip with folks off three other boats so it was a full van and even fuller on the trip back. We arrived about 1030 and had the van set to return about 1400. On our first trip around the store, we only picked up a few bottles of cheap(some under $4.00US) wine. One even came with a free pair of sandals. We stopped about 1230 and had lunch there(a hotdog and coke for Tracy and a Chicken/bacon roll and coke for me). Tasty and cheap.
We did a second trip around the store after lunch and got a few more items, the biggest being a box of 5 Australian Strip Steaks. We had these when we were in Fiji and it was great meat. Good beef is hard to find here in the Philippines so we thought we would give them a try even though they were in a box and impossible to see what they looked like. Guess we will see when it's time to fire up the grill.
The van showed up right on time(early actually) and we stuffed the van to the gills and headed home. It's now just about 1630 here with the sky again threatening to rain and a hint of thunder in the distance. Guess we will see what the evening storms bring. Most times, it rains in the afternoon or evening and is then calm though the night.
The photo at the top is of the inside of S M Mall in Davao. A relatively new and huge mall with lots of store for everything.
The adventure continues.