Ponce, PR

It is getting to be about that time....time to move on from Ponce. We have been at Ponce for 10 days now getting a ton of work done on the boat, and reprovisioning. We are down on our waterline by about 2 inches from all the weight of the food we have loaded aboard....a dozen of this and 18 of that !! I think that we "singlehandedly" have ended the recession in Puerto Rico. (Seriously, the economy on PR is thriving. We went to a mall last week, and it was packed....10+ people deep at cash registers in most of the stores....it was amazing....looked like the week before Christmas. Everywhere we went people were spending money....no recession/money worries here; except for me :) )

Well, Mike arrives today. We will be going out to the airport to pick him up this afternoon. We will leave here first thing tomorrow morning for Isla Caja de Muertos (Island of the box of the dead, i.e. Coffin Island) Sounds like an upbeat spot !! We will let you know.....

Jose Almeida was a Portuguese pirate who was in love with a married woman from Curacao. After the woman's husband died, Joe married her, but she was killed in an attack shortly after the wedding. Joe had his wife embalmed and placed in a coffin with a glass door that he hid in a cave on Caja de Muertos. Joe would return to the island frequently to "visit" his wife. Joe was eventually caught and hanged as a pirate. His crew returned to Coffin Island to search for Joe's treasure. When they found the "treasure" a fight broke out, and the crew killed each other; leaving one survivor. When the survivor opened the box and discovered it's contents, he threw himself into the sea to his death. Gotta love how islands get their name....Rum Island is so simple !!

Will post from Isla Caja de Muertos.....I will keep Mike out of the caves !!

THE CREW