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Melissa & Dave - Adventures at Sea

Big Red Crabs

This morning we headed over to Green Island again, this time with R&R Kedger and Second Wind.  Neko having stayed overnight there last night.  Neko had reported that the anchorage had cleared out, so we figured there would be enough space for us to anchor properly here today.  First thing as soon as we arrived, the Kuna Indians showed up - this time selling crab!

They were so big, they wouldn't even fit in our largest pot!  So Dave cleaned them right away, and Melissa cooked them up.  They are chilling in the fridge for lunch tomorrow.  Yum!

Second Wind came over to the boat for a lesson on how to recharge Digicell here via the web interface.  Much easier than going into town, finding a Digicell vendor, and then putting money on the account.  Determined to always have internet, Melissa's become the local expert on how to recharge the money on the account, and how to buy a new data package when the old pre-paid plan runs out.  Though as Dave says, the network backbone here is run by carrier pigeons.  And sometimes they get tired and go to sleep.  And when they run out of carrier pigeons, no more internet.  In reality, the network here is actually all 4G because it is relatively new.  The problem is that in populated areas they don't have enough bandwidth.  So in Nargana web browsing was agonizingly slow, but out here at Green Island in the middle of nowhere its blazingly fast because no one is using it.  Backwards to what you would expect in the US - high speed in the cities and slower connections out in the countryside.  Though at about 8pm tonight it went out completely.  We suspect the cell tower was hit by lightning because both data and voice were completely down - no signal at all.  Fortunately it came back up about 8:30am in the morning.

Meanwhile we have been talking to Shelter Bay Marina about the possibility of leaving the boat here for a while.  One of the things they brought up was that we should have a dehumidifier aboard to cut down on the mold.  We told them that we already have one.  To which they replied we needed to check and see if it was on the list for recall.  Apparently there has been a huge recall on them because 121 of them have caused fires - damages totaling $4.5 Million to date.  We checked the list of affected units, and sure enough ours was on it.  Scary!  We are hoping to be able to find a new one down here somewhere as we can't use the one we have!

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