Fish and Emerald Clouds.....

Here is Trudie and her dolphin fish (mahi-mahi)  Note the hook still in it's mouth:

This fish weighs about 12-15 pounds.  We filleted it  immediately and it provided several delicious meals.

We mentioned in a previous post that we sailed south from the Caicos Islands over the shallow banks which extend move than 20 miles south of the islands. There is an underwater wall where the banks plunge into the deep ocean waters dropping from 12 feet to several thousand feet.  The water on the banks is bright turquoise and on bright,  sunny days the water reflects on the clouds turning the clouds green i.e. "emerald clouds".  The emerald cloud phenomena occured where the banks water joined the deep ocean waters  in the following photo.  The clouds on the left are green as they are over the bank water, and the clouds on the right are white as they are situated over the cobalt ocean waters:

We are currently in Luperon, DR and I really don't know how to describe it...   It is VERY third world, dirty, dusty, smells good and bad, loud, busy, latin music, horns, rapid-fire spanish, motorcycles, raw sewerage in the streets, vendors, corn-cookers on the "sidewalks", goats roaming the city,  flys, chickens (running around and being grilled) dominoes, card games, x-pats, and of course yachties.  AND, there are pasty, american tourists from a local resort thrown into the mix....mouths open, cameras around the neck,  with of course their "cruise clothes" and their mouths wide open. We LOVE this place !!  As Mark on "Liahona" observed, "this place has a pulse"...and, boy, is he right "

We are working hard on our "Spanglish"...trying to talk like Tonto in the old Lone Ranger TV show..."Ugh, me need'em beer..."  We are histerical trying to order dinner, or buying something in a store....then there is the money exchange....dollores -> peso   "Cuanto cuesta?"  (how much does it cost ?)  Now try and bargain someone down.....keep the numbers straight, and do the currency conversion !  It's a blast....  Trudie and I were bargaining for a shell neckless for Trudie, when a Cuban-American tourist came to our rescue....we got the neckless for half the listed price.....

Only pictures can tell the story of Luperon....next time......