FIVE SOLID DAYS OF RAIN ................................

And after Day 2 everything slowly begins to smell of "wet" ...............By Day 4 you dare not smell anything anymore .............. All you long to do is open hatches and dry things out ............... But all bad things come to an end at some point............Day 6 is wonderful and the sun is out ............... Time to go to town, check the mail, change books at the library and do some shopping ............
Each time we cross the bridge in CULEBRA, we wonder what's inside this trailer? ....................... We are hanging around waiting now to haul out and repaint the bottom of ARITA ............Our Aussie courtesy flag is indicative of our having been in P.R. a little too long............. Time to get moving ............Oceans and continents are calling ................and so is 'CARNIVALE' in Trinidad ............. And there are still so many islands to see ...................



Now you all know 'Lizard Love',...... That's a head-bopping, aerobic, hip-displacing dance routine, but a lizard 'pooping' is entirely different .............. It requires the Iguana to first raise his/her abdomen as high as possible, by standing on all fours, toes fully outstretched, and then to concentrate like he/she is in labor ........... Look carefully at the photo alongside (double click on it if necessary) ............ What you see was his/her previous dropping that's now all dried out, but we witnessed with great precision how a new one was put right over the top of the old one ........... And not a small one either ........... Nature is interesting, but please don't think we make a habit of watching 'Iguanas doing their thing',....... We just thought you'd like to know ... The exercise must have been pretty exhausting, for shortly thereafter he/she 'crashed' in the mangroves ...........Oh, and on the way back to our dinghy we finally saw the inside of the Island Woman's stall .............. I mean the 'Other Island Woman'....



With the welcome sunshine overhead, we ventured out to anchor off the leeward side of CULEBRITA ........... The swell left over from Hurricane TOMAS is still out there ................. Exploring the island makes you aware that only a few feet beyond the water-line there is impenetrable spiky thicket of vines and miniature stunted trees. ........ Four yards in you are in darkness ................



And the hillsides are covered in cactus stands that even goats might have trouble with ..........All the vegetation is spiky....................




So grateful that when Tom Hanks' FEDEX plane went down, that it crash-landed in FIJI and not Culebrita ............What a mess that would have been .............. Still, it remains somewhat of a mystery why we keep seeing images of "WILSON" wherever we go ........... Even here on Culebrita .............