2013-04-21

Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain … Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain
It finally stopped raining around 14:00 but I couldn’t be bothered to go ashore, as the clouds were still over the island and there was nothing close by that I really wanted to do. I spent the morning charging the batteries to 100% (that took over 3 hours) so that the Xantrex was once again synchronized and I could start debugging the monitor. The internet connection wasn’t working, so I did what I could off-line until I found an open WiFi channel that functioned, albeit slowly.
I got the laundry done, but the drying the pieces is taking forever with the hatches shut. The laundry finished just as the batteries were full, and I didn’t wish to run the energy-intensive dryer phase running off the inverter and battery power. Now, at 15:00, I’ve opened the hatches and the breeze is doing an excellent job at getting the T-Shirts, shorts and towels dry.
The poor boat boys were dressed in full foulies but had little luck in enticing the sailors from their dry boats to do rainforest or Indian River tours in the rain. I even declined the Sunday BBQ invitation because it looked awfully wet and I had thawed out the frozen ground beef in order to make some burgers on my own BBQ. I went ashore once to get some local beer, “Kubuli”, to accompany my BBQ dinner and got some pictures before the rains set in again.