Snakes, iguanas and crocs - a shoot out to boot!!

Wonderful Iguana

Inside a messy boat

The front of the Sands

Where the shoot out took place

Out to dinner and rolling!!

Well, I will try to make this quick because I don't have much time. It is not that there hasn't been lots to report for the last ten or so days while waiting around for Sandy's foot to heal a bit!! We had Robert and Sushila join us for a few days... more on that later because it was a lot of fun and deserves its own story line. Then Robin from Portlandwas added to the crew and Patty came back from a visit to Alaska!!

We were swimming in the pool at the Sands Hotel (a cruiser hangout with a dinghy dock) when a snake wiggled across the water from a planter on the far side and popped up near where we were sitting, then came out of the water and went to another planter on our side. Hmmm, lots of excitement that!! We had a mouse swim out to the boat and try to take up residence while eating our wiring and such. Caught the blighter and tossed him back overboard in his deceased state. A tree near the path to Maria's Tienda, where we resupply from time to time, has a bunch of iguanas for some reason and we stop to take a few pictures along the way. One of our friends here said they saw a crocodile on the golf course to south of the anchorage the other day!! A couple of days ago the street outside the Sands was closed off while a shoot out occurred between, "a very bad man," as the proprietor said, and the police. Apparently a drug related thing, they said.