Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Hola David and Lorna

Sorry for the lack of log writing – we've been busy entertaining – something we love doing. Our last guests Margaret and Lloyd made it safely back to chilly, snowy Maine. Our new guests (and frequent visitors to Astarte) Dave and Lorna came from cold Ohio. They were loaded down with goodies for both us and Astarte. Dave has a lovely bakery/candyshop in Oberlin and brought us many baked goodies along with CHOCOLATES!!!

They spent a few days in Panama City touring prior to getting on a mighty tiny plane (seven seats and one small Kuna woman who sat on the luggage) and landed on an equally small runway at Corezon de Jesus a few hours late. They were over the 25 pound each baggage limit and conned some other passenger into carrying one of their "bottles" of evening entertainment. Unfortunately, Lorna's wine coolers (of the mojito variety) got confiscated and didn't make the trip with her to Kuna Yala. We've had to make up for those with Astarte Rum punch.

Dave and Lorna have visited us on Astarte while we were in Florida, in Turks & Caicos, in Roatan, Honduras, and now here. So they're used to life on Astarte – but this time we didn't have a big grocery store to start the trip. With Margaret and Lloyd we hit the tienda jackpot loading up on eggs, veggies and fresh fruit plus we had many Kuna fishermen selling us lobsters and crab. This time, the pickings were VERY slim at the tiendas – eggs but no fresh fruit or veggies to be found. And so far (three days into the visit) not a single Kuna with gifts from the sea.

We've enjoyed re-connecting with them, snorkeling, eating and drinking and even played a game or two. There's been some early bedtimes and even napping, a little book reading and generally some good visiting and relaxing. They've been invited to do log entries as all our guests are asked to do – but so far they are having too much fun to write.

We started in Nargana, anchored off Esnasdup and now we're in the Eastern Holandes in the Swimming Pool. We'll stay in the pool a few days at least to explore some of the great snorkeling in the area.

The weather is great...and Dave Goldberg, we haven't "blown up and died" yet!

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