Day 331, Year 5 Shopping Day in Hell-ville
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Weather: Another Beautiful, Sunny Day
Location: Hell-ville, Nosy Be, NW Madagascar
Shopping for the next month was not as easy as I had hoped. There was no cheese that we could afford at the super marche and the vegetables at the market today were not the best. And there was no whole meal flour at the super marche. We’ll be fine, but it made shopping difficult. When Mark and Ed go in tomorrow to check out, I am going to go with them and make one more run through town looking for cheese and green peppers. I’m also going to take my camera and just sit and take photos of people on the street. Mark noted today that people here wear the most “interesting” garb and somehow they look great in it. If you saw the same people on the street in the US it just wouldn’t work, but here where zebu carts haul goods up and down the streets, things just look different. We have all the fuel we can carry, most of the food we need, and hopefully by noon tomorrow we will have completed the check-out formalities and will head back to Nosy Sakatia to snorkel in the low, low full moon tides before heading south.
I got online this morning and checked our daughter’s new blog for the latest news in climate and oceans. She had posted an article today about the extremely warm season we have all just come through and how the higher temperatures are affecting the coral reefs around the world. In 1998 coral in many parts of the world was bleached. We have seen the re-growth of new coral in these areas during our circumnavigation and that was exciting, but unfortunately 2010 could be worse than 1998. Sadness doeth prevail.
Our son Justin and his wife Jo and son Ziggy are currently headed from New Mexico to Nevada for the first stop on their fall music tour. They bought a bus (like an old Greyhound) that they have outfitted for travel. On Sunday when we talked to Jo she was furiously painting the outside of the bus and getting ready for take-off on Monday morning. They made it to Las Vegas last night, so Reno here they come.
