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| Our view from the house we are staying at this week. Chocolate Hole is the bay to the right. Obsession is the sailboat to the far right. (Taken with my iphone on panoramic) |
Sorry for the LONG delay in any posts. Getting settled here on St. John is taking longer than anticipated. With no internet on the boat and a defunk battery on the laptop we have been without internet for several weeks, as you probably noticed. We are actually house sitting for friends this week which has been a nice change of pace. We are directly above Chocolate Hole so can look out and see the boat whenever we would like.
Until I get a few pictures of beautiful St. John, let me post a few more pictures of the Dominican Republic. Ah, those were the days, cheap avocados, papayas, tomatos. . . . cheap Beer!
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We frequented this produce shop often. The family lived behind this little room. Isn't it beautiful? I'll never forget listening to the owner, Victoria signing along to a spanish song blaring from a bar across the street.
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| The fire department, DR style |
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| One of many roadside produce stands you see in Luperon. |
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| Some young adventurers we met in Luperon. The Henry brothers, Russell and Graham had been kayaking for 5 months. They started in Brazil and were heading to Florida, a 6500km trip.They have a website and facebook page chronicling their travels. They are currently in the Exumas, Bahamas. |
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Kingdom Hall in Luperon. Congregation of about 50 publishers, LOTS of kids. It was awesome, even though we didn't know spanish.
One of our friends from the hall, Hermana Francisco. She is in a wheelchair and we got to wheel her to the Kingdom Hall one night because her daughter was running late. She didn't know a bit of english and us very little spanish, but we finally figured out that she wanted us to take her to the meeting and her daughter would come later. We first met her sitting on her porch with her magazines displayed, offering them to people as they went by.
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Puerto Escondito, one of our day stop overs as we hopped along the coast of DR. If the weather isn't great (aka, strong winds, rough seas) you can hop along the coast of DR at night and use the winds that come off of the island to calm the ocean winds. So we anchored here for the day and at night fall headed out.
As
we nosed Obsession into Puerto Escondido (which consists of a primitive fishing village) we felt like the early explorers Christopher Columbus
or Sir Francis Drake. We were impressed
by the immensely steep, verdant mountains framing either side of the bay. Uninhabitable due to their sharpness, they lay
in stark contrast to the rolling hills of the DR that we had seen previously.
Ahead of us the palm tree fringed beach was separated by another mountain that
finished the separation with some jagged rocks that ended in the calm
mesmerizing green water. A small fishing
village with palm frond covered huts dotted the beach to our right. To our left was one of the most picturesque
beaches Terry and I agreed we had ever seen.
I felt as though at any moment natives would come running out onto the
beach to welcome us, jump into their dugout canoes and bring us coconuts,
papaya and other gifts of their land.
Instead, out from the palm trees comes two men with two donkeys loaded
down with coconuts followed by two frisking dogs. It added to the moment and helped us reflect
on how beautiful and simple life should be.
What can I say, DR was amazing!
Camile
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