Puerto Princessa

Hi Everyone, Happy July 4th! 7pm Puerto Princessa At the Abinaco Yacht Club here in Puerto Princessa we have met some very interesting and helpful people. Cissy and John who run the yacht club are very helpful, practical, and charming. John can speak on any topic and in several languages. Cissy can accomplish anything you might need. The club is bamboo and cloth shades and rope and boat artifacts and looks exactly as it should. Very Masterpiece Theater set in the tropics pre WW2. Of course the tv has CNN which generated a Brit complaining that it wasn't BBC. But mostly it looks like old world with the charm of far away. Puerto Princessa itself is another story with its cell phone shops, large supermarket, and roads filled with cars. It is larger than Subic Bay, but more Olongapo than Manila. Thanks to Toni and Darren, a New Zealand cruising couple, we now have a cell phone that connects to the computer for internet. They told us where to get them and helped install the software needed to configure the computer. It would have taken us longer than the "forever" it took them to install it. Someone had helped them a bit previously. So far it can't seem to do photos so those will have to wait for Kota Kinabalu several days away. But I can seem to catch up a bit reading email and checking on the Sox. We will have to change some of the configurations when we get to Malaysia and need new sim cards for the new phone. It plugs into the USB port and costs 10 pes0 for 30 minutes. Pretty cheap. We will probably be here one more day (weather is forcing us.) The names and coordinates of our anchorages are on the chart plotter and not in front of me so I will have to send that next email. I will also see if mornings are better for email. If so maybe just one photo of our lovely anchorages whose names are all running together in my head. Ru