Canned Peas but New Friends
23 February 2011 | Bahia Benao
We have no fresh food left. More importantly Dick has no beer left. As much as we love canned tuna and crackers, it is clearly time to see if we could get the dinghy ashore in an upright position. We stopped by each of the other boats to see if they wanted to join us including a new boat that had arrived earlier. FOXGLOVE had sailed here from Yokohoma, Japan spending two years in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska along the way. They joined us on our food foraging expedition and in the process a wonderful new friendship was begun. Yoshio was a firefighter on a fireboat in Yokohama harbor and Humi taught deaf children. Their English was minimal and our Japanese nonexistent but Humi’s ability to speak with her hands and Yoshi’s enthusiastic English allowed us to communicate easily. And they have a steel boat! While our trip ashore did not find any tiendas, we did have a nice lunch and some beer was added to the larder.