We spent a few days at anchor at Dewey harbor, because it is a short dinghy ride to the town dock from there. Why is this important? Well, we had to do some last shopping and it required a ferry ride from Dewey on Culebra island to Fajardo on the main island of Puerto Rico. Shopping trips to Fajardo usually result in schlepping heavy stuff back to ORION, so it is much easier to be near the town dock. By coincidence ourCanadian friends Peter and Liz of SV Kynda were in Fajardo at Marina del Rey getting their boat ready to cruise for a few months...what a wonderful surprise! So we arranged a day out of our busy schedule (just kidding) to meet up with them.
We left Culebra under a beautiful "waffle sky" and met Peter and Liz in time for breakfast in Fajardo :) They had rented a car for the day, which made getting around easy and provided temporary storage for all the stuff we bought at West Marine, Walmart, and Econo...yap...we think in those terms now, because being full time cruisers means not having a car most of the time, something we used to take for-granted in our many years as landlubbers!
We had a great time with Peter and Liz :) One of the fun things worth mentioning was an unexpected encounter with the Pirates of the Caribbean! Here is how it happened...
Peter and Liz' sail boat is docked at Marina del Rey in Fajardo and after we finished our shopping at the marine store there, they invited us for a quick coldie on Kynda...which we of course accepted :) On our way to their dock we passed an odd looking old sail boat only to find out to our total delight that it is "the Black Pearl"...yes!...the "Black Pearl" as in "Pirates of the Caribbean" as in Johnny Depp...as in "Captain Sparrow"...as in..you get the drift... :)
Liz explained that "the Black Pearl" is docked there until the next movie in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series...Wow! Of course we had to have a picture...She also explained that the little pilot house on the top left has a camera mounted...that's how they shoot the scenes on deck and beyond...when the boat is fully featured they lower the pilot house thingy, so that it can not be seen...how cool is that? Well...we sure had fun...we'll see Peter and Liz on SV Kynda again...either if they stop in Culebra on their way to St. Thomas and St. Maarten or we'll catch up with them in St. Maarten...either way we wish them "Happy Sailing" :)
