Today we got up at 7 am and ate breakfast before leaving for Dos Palmas. Phil told us a joke on our way to the dock: “Why is Wyoming so windy? Because Utah sucks, and Nebraska blows.” We took a nice boat ride across Puerto Bay to the little island and stayed until 4 pm. The day was nice. I sat on a bamboo swing for a while and wrote in my journal while taking in the beautiful view. After that, I went for a swim in the pool, then ate lunch–a buffet style lunch with what seemed to be typical Filipino food.
After lunch, we took the kayaks out and Andy started tipping me over. It was very easy to tip someone in a kayak over as long as you could get both your hands on the nose or tail of the kayak. I’m not sure if it’s supposed to be called a bow and stern since it’s a seagoing vessel, but you get the idea. I could barely get back in my kayak before he’d circle around and tip me over again. Not that I really minded since the water wasn’t very deep at all (about chest-high) and a refreshing 78 degrees. We caught up with Liezel and Steph in a double kayak and Andy tipped them over, too. Then Jim and Larry paddled up in a double kayak and Andy, of course, paddled over to them and tipped them over, also. Jim got really upset because he had some special pictures of his daughters in his wallet that got wet because he had it in his shorts pocket. Andy apologized but it didn’t really seem like that made it any better for Jim.
We packed up and got on the boat back to Puerto around 4 pm. The seas were pretty rough and Andy was standing in the back of the boat holding onto a short hutch. The plywood roof was about even with his forehead and when we hit a wave he banged his head into it making a gash about 4 inches long. It was not his day as he had other bad luck issues at Dos Palmas.
We went to Shakey’s Pizza for dinner and the pizza was pretty average. It was 550 pesos ($10.52) for the large, so it was a pretty good deal compared to the U.S. We went home and went to bed pretty much right after sorting out where our luggage was going to go in the trunks.
