Tuesday 23rd January
Luperon
Dominican Republic
19 54.4 N
70 56.5 W
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLY,WE WILL HAVE A DRINK FOR YOU SO DON"T GET TOO DRUNK!
BEST OF LUCK ABIGAIL, WILL BE THINKING ABOUT YOU WITH FINGERS CROSSED.
Our last day of patiently waiting for a weather window, according to the forecast it will be here tomorrow. It turned into a day of going backwards and forwards in the dink- filling the water tank with drinking water, though we will have some last minute filling to do before we leave, going into town to fill up the fuel containers at the garage and buying some cool drinks. Whilst Gerry did the running around in the dink I did a general clean up and stowed things away ready for the trip, opened up the boat to air it out, vacuumed the floors and polished the woodwork. By the time we had both finished out respective tasks it was time to go ashore and log on to the internet and answer email and upload the blog. Having done that we stopped by a boat in the harbour as the woman had offered us a bagful of books that they had finished with – we never say no to books. Anyway we sat on their boat for a hour or so chatting before we eventually left with the bag of books and a case of MREs (meals ready to eat) that they were going to throw away as they didn’t like them. We think that they are OK for emergency meals when we just can’t spend time cooking in the not so good weather that we seem to be encountering too often so we gratefully accepted them. We dinked back to our boat and about 5 minutes later we had a visitor – a German lady who had a book we wanted to buy off her about transiting the Panama Canal, a brand new book for less than the shop price – always a bargain! We spent half an hour or so having a drink and chatting and then she left, it was fast approaching snore o’clock and Gerry spent the next couple of hours examining the backs of his eyelids whilst I read my book. By the time he woke up it was too late to go and take some photos of our boat in the harbour from the yacht club as we had planned but we went to the marina instead for pizza and a couple drinks. Finally we fell into bed with thoughts of last minute things to do before leaving Luperon.
Dominican Republic
19 54.4 N
70 56.5 W
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLY,WE WILL HAVE A DRINK FOR YOU SO DON"T GET TOO DRUNK!
BEST OF LUCK ABIGAIL, WILL BE THINKING ABOUT YOU WITH FINGERS CROSSED.
Our last day of patiently waiting for a weather window, according to the forecast it will be here tomorrow. It turned into a day of going backwards and forwards in the dink- filling the water tank with drinking water, though we will have some last minute filling to do before we leave, going into town to fill up the fuel containers at the garage and buying some cool drinks. Whilst Gerry did the running around in the dink I did a general clean up and stowed things away ready for the trip, opened up the boat to air it out, vacuumed the floors and polished the woodwork. By the time we had both finished out respective tasks it was time to go ashore and log on to the internet and answer email and upload the blog. Having done that we stopped by a boat in the harbour as the woman had offered us a bagful of books that they had finished with – we never say no to books. Anyway we sat on their boat for a hour or so chatting before we eventually left with the bag of books and a case of MREs (meals ready to eat) that they were going to throw away as they didn’t like them. We think that they are OK for emergency meals when we just can’t spend time cooking in the not so good weather that we seem to be encountering too often so we gratefully accepted them. We dinked back to our boat and about 5 minutes later we had a visitor – a German lady who had a book we wanted to buy off her about transiting the Panama Canal, a brand new book for less than the shop price – always a bargain! We spent half an hour or so having a drink and chatting and then she left, it was fast approaching snore o’clock and Gerry spent the next couple of hours examining the backs of his eyelids whilst I read my book. By the time he woke up it was too late to go and take some photos of our boat in the harbour from the yacht club as we had planned but we went to the marina instead for pizza and a couple drinks. Finally we fell into bed with thoughts of last minute things to do before leaving Luperon.
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