Sunset at Los Haitises Park

     Well, we finally made it across the Mona Passage!!  We left a week to the day after we had planned to cross. It was a long, tiring trip. We traveled for more than 32 hours and made 159 nautical miles. We decided to enter Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (port of entry for Customs). A few miles out (when the phone got a signal) I tried to call Don & Janice from Plane to Sea. They were at the dock in Mayaguez, still. We docked, cleared Customs by telephone and were visiting when another couple came walking toward us. I thought it was someone that THEY knew since they had been there for a week. I was wrong, it was Tim & Chelyn Shaw (Zephyrus) from Key Largo - worked at Quiescence dive shop!  Such a small world!!  They were working on a live aboard dive vessel (Spree) docked there.     
     We spent the weekend trying to locate the mast of P2S but never found it. We snorkeled and Darrell used up 2 tanks of air trying to find it. We did retrieve a bicycle that  Had fallen off at the dock.     
     We didn't get to visit the park near Samana like we wanted without a dinghy motor. In fact, there is a four legged passenger on board whose name was MUD for a few days!  We walked her twice at the marina and she wouldn't go. We rowed to shore at the park - no small trip, I might add - and she wouldn't go!  We were about 2/3 of the way across the Mona and she was miserable, I was tired and grouchy from sleep deprivation. I put her in her crate and she went to howling - she pooped about 3 days worth and floated the memory foam mattress (read now ruined) after many hours of pleading and coaxing for her to GO!    

The Dinghy has a Motor again!

     But back to the dinghy motor..... We put out feelers everywhere we stopped for a motor!  Nearly every stop held SOME promise of getting one. We went to the marine store here in Boqueron and Joshua made several phone calls - it was looking grim!  I had just told a fellow cruiser that we would probably not find one until Fajardo (opposite coast of PR).  Joshua called this morning and he HAD one!!  It is a 2002 Mercury 10HP two stroke!  We bought it after some bargaining to what I consider a good price!!  We are mobile again!!!!!