Still in our bumpy anchorage the weather has turned a little grey. Two evenings ago we did an evening wash and took the rare opportunity to run the air cons on the boat, principally to drive the moisture out but we enjoyed the coolness all the same. As we had all the doors and windows shut we missed our usual splashing cue to raise the dinghy and for perhaps the first time left it hanging off the back of the boat. Overnight there was a lot of rain so we ended up with our own little paddling pool off the back of the boat.
In the morning I popped over to Callisto to see if they were interested in sundowners that evening, which they were. Mike had found problems with his water maker control board, another result of their near lightening strike. To get his watermaker going he needed a few simple electrical connectors which I had spare and gave him.
Helen and I then went ashore for lunch, paperwork and shopping. We took the camera and took a few pics around town which you can see below. Lunch ended up being a shared pizza. We then walked a mile or so to the port captains office to get our onward national zarpe (clearance papers). Turned out they wanted some more copies of our passport pictures which we had to get back in town. We returned to town, took five copies of each passport for luck, then went shopping for a few groceries. We took the groceries back to Dignity and I headed back to make my second visit to the port captains office.
Mike, Anne and Joanne from Callisto joined us for sundowners and it ended up being a fairly late evening for all of us. All very pleasant.
This morning we’re expecting to meet up with Helen’s ex-colleague Jason who will stay with us for a day. We’ll probably head over to Manuel Antonio Park to anchor there and take a walk around in the morning. This is pretty close to Callisto’s near lightening strike. We’re hoping lightening doesn’t strike the same place twice.
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