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We visited the RLS home and gardens.  Walked up a steep hill for an hour to view his gravesite which overlooked the mountains and bay around Somoa. These pictures are from that day.  They are not in order thanks to this stupid program.
Steve and Nona

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

somoa

We arrived in Somoa 8/20/13 and have been in Apia Marina since then. The first time we have been tied to a dock since Mazatlan and it is a nice rest from rocking and rolling. The marina reminds us a bit of Mexico cause on the weekends the music in the marina is loud and plays to midnight.  The internet costs $5.00 dollars and hour. That is $10 WST, western somoa talo. We hiked up to Robert Louis Stevensons grave site today and toured his house. We are not used to much exercise so we sweat profusely in the 90 degree uphill rainforest climb.  We have rented a car for three days and Steve is driving with the steering on the right side of the car and driving on the left side of the road.  so far so good.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

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blog update.

We have been anchored in pago pago, American somoa for a week. It has been raining like the monsoons for the last 3 days. Takes 15 minutes to bale out the dingy.  Our wet clothes are hanging all over inside the boat but with 98% humidity they don't dry out.  This morning the winds picked up to 15 knots so we opened the hatches for a draft to dry out the clothes. I replaced the bilge float switch today.  I noticed there was about 6" of water above the float switch in the bilge and with some troubleshooting concluded the float switch was defective. From there I replaced the internal line in the whisker pole add a foreguy, afterguy and topping lift to it. It will be a lot safer to deploy now.

Tomorrow afternoon we depart for Somoa with our friends Per and Elizabeth on the sailboat ODA. They are Norwegians and are sailing around the world.  We have been sailing together from Tahuata, Rangiroa, Suwarrow to Pago Pago.  Nice people. They speak very good English and have a good sense of humor. There is a full moon so the night sail/motor will be beautiful.  Should arrive in about 16 hours.

Steve

Corvidae in bad weather

We are so proud!

We have been IT-dudes in a minute, and have managed change our blog so you want to come back again!!  We are so proud!!!

pago pago - pronounced pango pango. American Somoa

arrived pago pago 8/11/13. Anchorage is in a bay downwind from the starkest tuna processing plant. The aroma is striking when they are cooking tuna. Thousands of frozen tuna are brought in by large fishing boats from China and Somoa. The fish are thawed out by flowing hot water over them in large tanks. I asked for a tour of the plant but it just so happened the board of directors from Japan were visiting so we didn't visit Charlie Tuna's plant. Nona and I took a small bus to Aua for a walk and to see the Fruit bats. A few were flying during the day and looked quite prehoristic. They hang from the trees by day and eat fruit at dusk.