January 26, 2011
Another day and another beautiful sunrise. This morning the sky was a delicate pink just before the sun came up blazing. Every morning the colours are just a bit different. That 15 minutes when the eastern sky starts to light up is such a perfect time. Here that doesn’t happen until about 7 am. At that time I am making coffee so I will be ready to view yet another sunrise.
The lagoon is a quiet place to anchor. The boat barely moves unless a motor boat goes by. On the other hand the surf pounds in on the beach. Whenever I wake in the night I hear the surf. It sounds as if big loads of rocks are being dumped…quite a clatter.
This morning we are meeting friends for breakfast in Barra de Navidad. That will be a nice break from our usual routine.
Today is special for another reason…I had a sponge bath and washed my hair! I have salt-water shampoo and it does work. It is a new me clean body and clean clothing;. I haven’t bathed so infrequently since I was a kid. On the farm it was bath day on Saturday.
Lovely breakfast with friends! Then we all went for a walk so that Bob could buy some more wrenches. He tried to redo the packing (that slows down leaks into the boat) and didn’t have a large enough wrench to do that.
When we came back to the boat Bob worked on changing one pump for another. Now we have an automatic bilge pump working again. We will go to Manzanillo to buy another one and probably a spare…it is important to keep water out of the bilge!
Our dinner was fresh marlin caught by our neighbour. Very tasty.
Where we anchor is so idyllic. McHales Island which is a mangrove island attracts lots of birds. In the morning we see fishermen casting their nets..I am yet to get a photo of that as they always cast when my camera is somewhere else.
The bugs were out this evening and got to Patches and I. Bob as usual was immune. The mosquito net over the hatch did the trick. It is warmer now but still cools off toward morning.
Perfect weather.
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