Coron Town, Busuanga, Palawan, Philippines
This is the start of a 12-day sailing trip around the unbelievably beautiful islands of Busuanga, Palawan, with my husband, Raul, and Mariel, our 16 year old daughter.
The fun started before we even hit the water. In the shuttle from the Busuanga airport to Coron town, we met Joy, a wiry, wrinkled 50-ish American woman who has been sailing around the world for the past 20 years with another female American companion. Their boat, Banshee, sank (!) and was eventually salvaged in Papua New Guinea and she has a book about it http://www.bansheeboat.com/. She flew to Manila to get spare parts for her ref and took advantage of the trip to see a doctor for a leg wound that had been festering for some time- the doctor immediately scheduled her for surgery the next day as it turned out to be skin cancer. Her sailing stories during the hour long shuttle ride were priceless indeed and I was sorry to see her go at the end of the ride, limping from her wound clutching her precious ref spare parts.
I need more inspiration like Joy.
3 comments:
these blogs are just what sailors like me and my wife, who need more inspiration, for us to sail more often
thank you
jo
wow. hard core! not enough melanin in her skin. don't think we have that problem.
write some more, hehe..
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