ABOVE AND BELOW A SHADY LADY..............

Someone must have blown the whistle on Friday the 13th, because Saturday and Sunday were incredibly beautiful days................Wind down to five knots or less, skies bluer than blue, and cloudless.................What a welcome break from grey..............And we got away in the dinghy to the island of LUIS PENA...........a long, but doable dinghy ride, to go snorkeling to an underwater world, leaving ARITA on the mooring with all the shade covers up.................. Do a double click on the aerial photo and look for "that touch of green" (7th boat from the left) .....................And you will see us anchored far behind the reef that blocks out the ocean swell.................



You have to do a double-click on these photos to see the millions of fish-fingerlings we swam through...............Fearless they were............(Wally is in there somewhere, he's the one with the skew eye)........And there was live coral growing everywhere...............We need to come back to see more.........



And when we came out of the water it took only sixty seconds to make new friends..........Exchange our snorkel gear for some cold drinks and .............Well you know how it goes......................That's Laurie wearing her famous 'Ernesto Berterelli "ALINGHI" cap'..............You can see mainland PUERTO RICO in the distance and when we came back to town we caught up with this Iguana, who is going through an identity crisis, while slowly shedding his skin................



Dr Carlos Selles and his wife Glory have a beautiful 43ft Bavarian sloop, state of the art design, and super sleek and they have previously anchored near us............... This time, they came out to see us in a much smaller vessel, a kayak, together with colleagues, to enjoy a welcome drink of mango rum in a sea-shell (we are going to need more mango rum shortly, supplies are dwindling).................Great to see them again and to share a delightful lunch at "Mamacitas" restaurant................ Carlos took some of the photos, including the great aerial shot as they left on an 8-seater 'fly-in-the-sky' to wing back to the mainland of PR................All of this was yesterday afternoon...............And today it is on our blogsite, compliments of wonderful internet and a wifi antenna somewhere in the hills behind us.................Haven't figured out where yet...........Don't really need to.............We even have a router on board so that I can 'skype' the 'Queen of Florida' in the front cabin, right here from the chart table...............Beats walking three steps.......................