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Melissa & Dave - Adventures at Sea

Fish Morse code

We awoke this morning to an odd noise – it sounded like someone was tapping on the hull.  We believe it was probably a fish feeding on the barnacles on the bottom of the boat.  Guess it’s time to get the bottom scrapped again!

We went to breakfast at another restaurant overlooking the bay.  Then it was time to go get some ice.  Dave dropped Melissa off at a small fishing lodge that looked like it might have a town nearby.  Sure enough Melissa found the small tienda, but they didn’t have any ice.  They pointed off down the road, and told her it would be a two minute walk.  So off she went with everyone staring at her as she walked by the houses.  She came upon a dilapidated restaurant with a sign “se vende hielo”.  There was no one around, and the place was in complete disrepair – with overturned tables and chairs.  Melissa ventured in, and a woman came out.  Melissa pointed at the sign and said “yellow?” (more or less how hielo is pronounced).  The woman looks at her suspiciously, and without taking her eyes off Melissa, yells into the back for (presumably) her husband.  A large man comes tromping out, and Melissa repeats the pointing at the sign routine.  He walks over to a huge chest freezer and opens it.  Sure enough, its filled with nothing but bags of ice.  For less than a dollar, Melissa had her ice!

Then we were underway to the short hop to Isla Cavada – part of the Islas Secas.  Wanuskewin decided to try out her spinnaker.

Its amazingly beautiful here.  We are enjoying the Panama Islands more than any other Central American cruising grounds.

When we got to the anchorage, Melissa started trying to clean the bottom of the boat.  She felt something big swim by her, and looks around.  Sure enough, Mike had swam over from Wanuskewin and was all grins having tried to spook her.  After an hour of scraping, Melissa had accomplished cleaning about 10% of the boat.  Yeah, ok, leave this job to the pro’s with scuba tanks!

We headed to Wanuskewin for fish dinner.  Yum!

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