May 9-13
Times flies when you're not paying attention!! We've beenhere for a few days swimming, watching the iguanas, picking up garbage,snarling at the boats who come screaming into the anchorage, with their stereosblasting, drop their passengers to harass the iguanas and then leave again.
Quentin has almost finished his whole English course and I have to say I have never read such a crappy course outline. ILC stuff is old and useless. He has had to read Romeo and Juliet in 2 versions: the standard Shakespeare version and one that is called "Manga"...Japanese anime' with the Shakespearian text but some of the speeches were shortened.
One of the part questions he has to answer is: "Tell why you think the Manga version is not as good as the original version, by citing examples of things that were added, removed or changed in the Manga
version." How slanted is THAT???What if you like it better? I'm not afan of the Manga version...don't like comic books, and old English spoken byJapanese just looks/sounds funny, but hey...you can read it faster!! Which isgood, if you don't like reading Shakespeare!
So, we have seen some really big rays and lots of crabs and fish. There are some needle fish or gar fish that hunt against the boat. They swim through the schools of little fish and slam them against the boat and suck them up. There are silver-coloured fish that hunt with them or follow the rays to see what they churn up. We are very careful around the rays here. They are not used to humans.
The iguanas are like dump bears. They run out onto the beach as soon as they hear a motor. And if you don't have anything, they walk away. I was picking up garbage and because I had something in my hand, they were following me.
There is a pair of nesting ospreys here as well. They live on the western island in one of the few tall trees here. It's nice to see that the islands were not affected by the hurricane last October.
We have done some chores...repaired the mainsail with the rest of our sail tape and duct tape. It's 100-mile-an-hour tape and since we only go about 5-7 miles an hour, we're hoping it will hold until we get back to shore.
The wind generator is not working...no blades but there is ample sunshine right now...no clouds or rain...I probably shouldn'a said that...so we are good for power.
The seagulls here are as bad as seagulls at home only they are more polite. They come by every morning noon and evening to say hello in case we are eating. They will sit on the dinghy or the motor and talk to us...very quietly.
We were all alone here except for the big powerboats until yesterday when a small monohull called Wild Goose came in and sat near us. SO, the other end of the bay is empty, right? Then a huge 47 ft catamaran comes in and parks BETWEEN us. They are so close I can read the labels on their laundry! I don't live on a sailboat because I want neighbours!!! Crap!! Hopefully they
will leave soon.
We went snorkelling n the deep water around the outside of the islands yesterday. Quentin and Rick tried to fish from the dinghy....didn't
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| Cutting a coconut ...with an audience |
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| Swimming under the rock |
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| Nesting ospreys |
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| Driving home from the "store" |
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| Hello, my name is George...got food? |
1 comment:
Wow, some awesome pictures once again. With regards to the English course, I'm sure they are allowed to say if they liked the Shakespearean version better, nobody out there to arrest them on that count. Maybe they word the question that way to make sure the student actually read both versions, completely, as the assignment required. Just saying... Anyway, sorry about your neighbours. It's sort of like apartment living. Take care, have a great week. Love ya.
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