3:25 pm Tuesday July 8th
I forgot to attach all of your names so only sent yesterday's email to myself! Now we are anchored off Usula and if it would just quit rolling from side to side on the boat, it would be a real treat. We have had side rolling for several days now and all through last night's anchorage. It took us forever to get here averaging about 4.9 knots because of wind and waves hitting us on the port bow and prot beam. We were just too worn down to get out the dinghy down for a beach trip. It's pretty here, but not irresistible. I might try to capture the water's colors with paint. Picture fake Kodak color and that's what it's really like here. And you can see 40 feet down into the water. We saw some fish swim by and a Philippine eagle fly up to its tree rest on the island. It is a very round little island covered with trees and a beach running around its perimeter. You could probably walk around it in an afternoon. Another trip. Anyway, the deep water is darker blue then aqua then green. It actually just depends on how the sun hits it what you see and how far into it you see. Last night the bottom was mud rather than coral. The sky was overcast. It was about 3:30pm and I couldn't see many links of the anchor chain.
We did have to work our way through two squalls during the day. You can see them coming from a great distance. I now know what Robin Reed the weather forecaster for WDBJ 7 meant when he mentioned the leading edge of a storm. They have edges and sides and you can see where they start and end.
There are several bancas here. Guess they are out fishing.
Time for me to send these 2 emails and then check on the Red Sox. Our friend Carol texts me the scores every day. She is a Yankee fan coming from NYC. But she feels bad for me when the Sox lose. Which they have been doing. Scarier than the side waves we have been getting! Go Sox!
Hard to believe that our new computer cell phone works here but it does!
Ru
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