We took the tender and went into the small canal we saw the day before. The water was pretty shallow and i needed to tilt the motor. To be even slower to see more, we used again the oars and paddled slowly along the canal.<\/p>\n
At ours end we came to an village with plenty of dugout canoes and also the motorboat with an outboard motor we saw the day before.<\/p>\n
Asking a man, who happened to be on the concrete pie, if we can dock our dinghy here, with a smile in his face, which looked before and after more stone faced, he made us understanding we can dock our boat.<\/p>\n
We walked towards the village.<\/p>\n
The first house we passed was also a shop. The few things they offered are neatly stored in very simple shells. At a cloth line there were a handful of very simple but colorful dresses for girls. The house was also the living quarter for the family.<\/p>\n
Being about 50 – 100 m further in the village, I saw accidentally that people came out of the house to have a look at us from a safe distance.<\/p>\n
The houses we saw were really very simple. Some just made by unpainted wooden boards, some nicely painted. The surroundings in general pretty well maintained.<\/p>\n
There was a concrete “street” about 1m and a half meter wide continuing to from the concrete pier through the village. We followed it.<\/p>\n
Children looked at its with a lot of curiosity. Adults greeted back. Beside daily life, we also saw people attending an holy mass.<\/p>\n
The concrete path continued through the village until the school, which appeared to be for several villages in a valley. There a man, speaking pretty well English, came to us and we had a nice chat. Where from? Where to go? Simple. Friendly. Warm hearted.<\/p>\n
Then we went back. Out of the canal we followed the shoreline to have a closer look. We also passed the house we saw already from MaRe. Again very simple.<\/p>\n
When I’m thinking about the people being unhappy with their life in Europe or Japan, I want them to see the simple life and the smiles of the people here.<\/p>\n
Then we continued by motor to go to a big house we saw already when we entered the bay. It looked to us like a simple pension with 4 little houses, being rooms for guest. When we came closer a man started talking to us and invited us to talk. His house and the little house at the side were built on concrete piles. So we stood in our tender and the floor of the house was in the height of our breasts. The conversation was first about the house and the little houses. It was not a pension but a the private house of the French-American couple who live there their retirement life. A life with all what is needed, a bigger garden behind to grow fruits and vegetables. Their life has as a bigger element, the re-use of all which can be re-used. The 4 small houses at the side are additional rooms for the couple, with 1 little house for school children to provide them with internet for doing their homework. The couple also provides the children with tablet PC, so they understand this part of live as well.<\/p>\n
We also got our lesson. A lesson on coconuts. What are the green and brown coconuts for and how to open to open coconuts; the basic lesson on coconuts.<\/p>\n
The story about the unripe coconuts of the narration before turned out to be the story of the two of us being unripe for enjoying coconuts.<\/p>\n
The green coconuts we got yesterday are only for drinking the coconuts water inside. Back on the boat we made the test. They are easy to open – no machete needed at all – and contain about 1\/2 – 3\/4 of delicious coconut water.<\/p>\n
The man also showed us how to remove the thick outer layer of a brown coconuts using his machete. The inner part, with the hard shell, we got for us including information on how to get the water (maybe 300 come) out, crack the shell open and in several pieces. To remove the fruit part of the coconut, they gave us the advice to put them for 10 min into hot water. Back on the boat, we also tested this. So we have now coconuts fruit in the fridge for a meal in the next days.<\/p>\n
Then we lifted the hook and went on to the next bay of our route. This bay, however, turned out to be too shallow and we continued to next anchorage we wanted to go.<\/p>\n
The route goes zick-zack through reefs and shallow areas into a very big bay. At one narrow part the depth we experienced was twice only a bit less then 5 m. This is a bit nerve wracking, but with a careful and slow approach perfectly fine. For the rest of our route the water was 12 – 13 m deep. Nevertheless we moved on much slower than normal cruising speed.<\/p>\n
At southern end of the bay and the end of the day, we dropped the hook at Green Acres \/ Chocolate Farm at a depth of 5 m. The tranquility is more amazing than in the places before. A few very nice houses are to be seen at the slopes of the forest, which looks even more like a jungle than what we saw before.<\/p>\n
The sunset was incredible long and beautiful. The dinner we had was a sunset dinner at the end of an eventful day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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