Culebra is
a laid-back little island off the east coast of Puerto Rico. It was used by the US military for bombing
practice for a number of years. When we
arrived on Friday, we were told that “if they don’t have it, you don’t need it”
by someone who has been coming here every year for ten years. The only thing we have found that we REALLY
need that we have been unable to get is propane. We hooked up our second tank on Friday and on
Saturday, there was none to make coffee!
BAD start to the day!! LOL Anyway, there is only one man who fills tanks
on the island and he has yet to return our phone calls. We went exploring on Saturday and found a
very nice little library – run entirely off donations. The librarian was super nice. They have WiFi available for free and that is
where we had some copies made (since the only office store is now closed). There is a small airport on the island near
the anchorage where we have been staying.
There are very frequent commuter flights coming and going. The pilot has to navigate between two small
peaks, bank a turn and be dropping altitude all at the same time to land – talk
about task-loading!
This is a
place that I could spend a little time!
No loud music, a ferry back to PR three times a day for $2.25 if you
need to go get something, a day from St. Thomas……paradise! We need to get all of our chores done so we
can go do some snorkeling and maybe even some diving! Roxy is missing her beaches but I understand
there are some beautiful ones just around the corner.
Yesterday,
we learned that Lyric (our grandson) has viral pneumonia. We sure hope he gets better quickly. I’m sure Jessica and Craig hope that much
more than I do. This is the little fella
that we are anxious to go back to Texas to see!
Of course we want to see Jessica and Craig too – lol! He made a full recovery in a few days – boy
kiddos are resilient!!
After a
week without propane, we talked to the librarian who said “he never returns
phone calls”. You just have to leave
your tanks there – WHERE IS THERE?? She gave us directions to his house/business
and that afternoon, we dropped off our tanks there with contact information. Next morning, Darrell went there and the
tanks had been moved but Mr. Perez was not there. I was on one end of town and he was on the
other, we started looking for the truck we had seen there the day before. I flagged down Mr. Perez near one of the
hardware stores and asked if he could kindly fill our tanks that day. We made arrangements for him to bring them to
a local business in ½ hour. That
afternoon, voila! We had propane!!! In the week long interim, we had borrowed an
adapter to use the one pound cans (for our barbeque) to get our morning coffee!
We had need
of some mail to get to us soon as some credit cards are expiring. Jessica and Scotty were kind enough to mail
them to the post office and they made it in lightening speed. In fact the two pieces of mail that we have
sent and/or received have made it faster than we were used to in Key
Largo! Thank you two! We are in the process of having all our mail transferred
to a mail service in Green Cove Springs, FL.
They can scan important things and send digitally to us – really
cool! Now, we just have to remember all
the places we need to change our address!
We have
enjoyed our stay in Culebra but we are getting antsy to move again. We hope to move on the St. Thomas in the next
3-5 days – a 20 something mile trip.
After that, we will be going to St. John for an unknown period of
time. We are thinking that we will fly
to FLL or MIA and pick up our car in Key Largo to drive to TX for a visit. We save a LOT of money that way and we have
more time than money these days, lol. We
have several boats here that we have come to know over the past month or so
that are all heading the same way. In
the meantime, we are each reading about one novel per day from the
library! Ready to find a new anchorage
and do some something!
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