Coron, Busuanga Is.
As the northeast monsoon has returned we are glad to be sitting here rather than beating our way in to the wind. The winds calm at night but return during the day. Currently we have 15 to 18 knots with some gusts in the 20's. We are anchored directly off town with about a one half mile dinghy ride to the "Sea Dive" restaurant where we secure our dinghy while ashore. There is a more wind protected anchorage in a cove nearby but it would greatly increase the travel distance to shore and with the winds blowing make for a wet ride. So unless the wind gets to uncomfortable we'll remain here.
As I said before Coron town is quite small, the main attraction to the area is the scuba diving especially wreck diving. There are at least ten Japanese warships and merchant ships sunk by American planes during WWII in the area. The wrecks vary in depth from shallow to deep, so something for all abilities. As the only diving I still do is cleaning the boat bottom, I'll leave the wrecks to others. As our only real exploration around town was to find someone to work on the computer we're not to sure about the quality of provisioning. There is an open market that we have yet to visit, though we did get some nice mangoes at a small fruit stand the other day. It would be a wet ride to shore today so perhaps manana.
For the past two years we have spent the Christmas season in either a Muslim or Buddhist country where there is not much of a holiday atmosphere. Now back in a mostly Christian country it's nice to once again see decoration and lighted trees. Before leaving Puerto Princesa we got to see the annual tree lighting that included a 45 minute fireworks show. Here in Coron we can see one of the lighted trees from our anchorage. We do carry some decorations aboard Kathy tries to buy a new ornament in the various countries where we have spent Christmas's past. Kathy has our mini tree and others about the saloon and we get a daily dose of Christmas music.
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OUR MINI TREE
ORNAMENTS FROM OUR TRAVELS
CORON TOWN
YOUR CHOICE MANGO FARM OR ISLAND
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