Catching up

Saturday

A day on Emilio's boat I took the lovely Nicole, a 31 year old Brazilian German.   Emilio offered her the oppportunity to spend the night on his boat.  She declined and stated that she was staying with me.  I ran into  a travel buddy of hers and Saturday night asked him to take care of her as she seemed more baggage than companionship.   He met a woman at the Aqua Lounge that some suspected was either a pro or a guy.  I am not sure what that meant, but I think that Nicole ended up saving him from a night he would have ended up regretting.

Tuesday

As I was leaving my house the head of judicial investigations called me wanting to borrow $250 for a couple of weeks so he could pay for his son's hemorrhoid surgery.  Apparently he was bleeding pretty badly in a hospital in David.

Met another Nicole, a very sweet, very pretty, well educated 25 year old from Virginia.  

Got reports that my neighbor took out his boat at 8:30 on Monday night to go out into the Caribbean and kill himself.  He is in his mid fifties, has cancer, wears diapers and is not a happy man.  Another neighbor had seen me coming by at that time and wondered if I had seen him.  It had been very dark.  If he was out there, he was running with his lights out.

Sitting on a dock in town waves crashed over the dock and up through the slats.  One computer power supply met a salt water demise.

Took some guys out to Los Secretos.  Doug did his usual, "I will pitch in for the gas."  He pissed off everybody at Los Secretos and gave no money.  I left him on Bastimentos.  Two more guys wanted a ride, they wanted to check into a hostel on Carenero.   After they checked in they didn't return for half an hour. I left them on Carenero.  When a guy is doing you a favor, you don't make him wait for you.

Wednesday

My neighbor returned home with some tale of swimming six miles in the open Caribbean in a life jacket and returning without his boat. Swimming in a life jacket is seriously hard work.  Pete flew around in his plane looking for the abandoned boat without success.   Nobody felt the need to go out in bad weather to search for an abandoned boat.

Back to Red Frog where I took I took Nicole and a couple of her friends from Red Frog to Old Bank were we visited a bunch of friends of mine and returned after many hours on the water to a very poorly cooked dinner prepared by the staff at a resort on Red Frog.  I docked the boat at 8:00.   I had two tanks of gas, a box of tools and a propane tank on the boat.  I escorted the girls through the jungle in the darkness.  Forming a human chain holding hands.   Apparently my night vision was a whole lot better than theirs.  When we arrived I realized I had left my backpack on the boat.  I didn't feel the need to cross the island twice more as there was not much of value in the backpack, a kindle fire and a bag of change that amounted to over $100.00.  By 9:00 a water taxi operator was waiting to take the crew to Aqua Lounge.  I greeted the operator and left for home.  I really didn't need to participate in the madness.   Yup, the Russian girl and Nicole entertained the place by pole dancing while an appreciative crowd gawked.

Thursday

Picked up my new prop.

Back to town to pick up another girl.  She spoke with me on the phone but failed to show for over an hour.  We left without her and went to the bat cave, visited some friends, went snorkeling and returned to a stir fry Thai dinner.

Friday

A twenty six year old German, her six year old daughter and a twenty something Argentinian girl will be escorted back to my house this evening after an afternoon on the water.