Puerto Rico

We've been here for about a week, as it has taken some time to get supplies and get the boat ready to go. It has been sitting in a bay with many other boats, for about four and a half months, so there was a little maintenance to do, getting the engine ready and scraping weed off the bottom of the boat.

The weather ranges from 25-30 degrees, and the water is lovely, though we are waiting to swim until we get a little further away from the sewerage discharged by our fellow sailors.

Puerto Rico is much like Venezuela, except the people are generally richer, as this is an American protectorate. The people live in little colourful box-like houses, with iron bars across the windows. People seem to spend all their money on nice cars and none of it on roads, which have pot holes you could bathe in. The people are a mixture of African, Spanish and Amerindian ethnicity, which makes for some fine looking women, but, if you couple this with the many American fast food outlets, it can make for some generously proportioned rear ends, but hey, theres nothing wrong with a little "junk in the trunk", unless that junk gives you diabetes.

We will head out tomorrow or the next day, to the end of the island, and then a couple of days after that we will be in the Dominican Republic, where things will be a little more interesting.