The bread goddess:  the other day Gretchen from Infinity came over with her bread-making tools.  We made:  pain au levain, pain a l'ancienne, and rye bread.  I didn't realize how gentle you need to be with bread, and how attentive- there are many steps.  And next time, you'll want to remember what you did wrong.  It requires something of a mad scientist temperament.

The veggie boat!  always happy to see the veggie boat.  This is Geraldo and Co.  This time they had fruit, veggies, and eggs- no chickens, though.  We're stocked now for the week.

Getting back to the basic blogging categories:  cute children, exotic sea creatures, brilliant sunsets.  These girls were between classes in Nargana, and happy to play on the iPad with me.  Actually, four of them were spinning in circles trying make themselves dizzy, but when I tried to take a picture, they sat down politely and posed.

Had one of those wonderful days when everything I touched turned to shit.  Started out getting slammed by my anchor trying to untangle the chain in the water, then I hit a large coral head going full speed.  Sprang a leak in my shaft log, and then trying to stop the leak, I picked up an extension cord while standing barefoot in salt water and got shocked so bad I couldn't let the cord go for a good 5 seconds.

Kiss my ass, Neptune.

Mike making nice with Neptune

a lovely wedding

When passing through Panama City, lots of people we know stay at Cruisers' Casa, a modest apartment that offers a shared kitchen, laundry, and security.  We didn't realize until we got here that the view goes on for days.  Very magical.  I am not one of those people who says 'oh, our hotel room doesn't matter- we're never there except to sleep'.  The weather has had us indoors a lot, and it's been very tolerable here.  We go to DC tomorrow.

If we go swimming late in the day, we seem to see more big fish.  Usually nurse sharks are found sleeping under a rock, but we followed one for quite a while at dusk the other day.