We spent 3 (very wet) days in the West End after the Winchesters left. The rain just didn't want to let up. On the bright side our boat was de-salted, our taxes are completed (nothing like being stuck on the boat to make you do taxes!) and we finally taught ourselves an unopened card game we had onboard for a year and a half (called Canasta). We also did 2 great dives, The Blue Channel and Texas. The Blue Channel wasn't a deep dive but it had all sorts of swim throughs, canyons, and caves to wiggle your way through. It was kind of a challenge for me to be spatially aware of my long flippers and tank in order not to disturb the coral, plants and other living creatures. Texas was a drift dive, and the current was ripping, we basically dropped down into the current and were pushed along a wall not even needing to kick to propel ourselves. In fact, every time I looked around Kent was upright (as opposed to the typical horizontal dive position) with his knees and fins tucked up and crossed giving himself over to the current and enjoying the ride. On this dive there were some huge (10+ft.) sea sponges that were over 200 years old that were pretty amazing.

Next we headed to Parrot Tree Marina. OK, well it is really a resort that is still under construction with a few inexpensive dock spots. It was here we filled up on diesel; in fact a large diesel truck came right to the dock with a super long hose. We also completed a few exciting things like Kent installing the fresh water flush on our water maker and I replaced some damaged copper foil which grounds our single side band radio. The use of the word 'exciting' in the previous sentence is meant to be read with sarcasm - Kent's project involved getting out every tool we own and tearing up the forepeak in order to look for parts and then lifting up all the floorboards to access the hoses and my project was the equivalent of trying to thread a sewing needle with a shoelace, there just is not enough space to fish things from one place to another on a boat.

The resort here is 75% compete and way to fancy pants for us but with nobody here but a few construction crews and staff members we really couldn't complain. Well, I take that back, the bugs are horrible here - we had just stopped itching from our last invasion and them bam!, we find ourselves battling the biting insects again.

Since we haven't had much luck fishing lately we bought wahoo steaks off a local fisherman and Kent BBQed them up one night. We decided to make them into fish tacos with our friend Charles's salsa recipe which is made of chopped mango, jalapeño, and red onion and then a squeeze of lime juice - it is delicious. Not sure why those guys are catching the wahoo and we are not but I am not about to complain after a belly full of fresh fish tacos!

Tomorrow we move along to some smaller anchorages and will continue exploring Roatan.