It is just a few days til Christmas, and we are near the town of Guanica, anchored behind Cayo Aurora, better known as Gilligan’s Island. The locals who used this place to hold pig roasts named it after the 1970’s TV show. The island looked like the one on the show, and one of the fishermen looked like Bob Denver, the lead actor. Today it is a state park.

   This small island was originally inhabited by a extraordinary woman, who at the age of 40,escaped misery and mistreatment in the workers barracks of the nearby La Ballena Farm, and swam to this Island. She then lived like Robinson Crusoe for many years.

Along with the rest of the flotilla, known as the Los Gringos that left Luperon, we are anchored behind the small cay. As a celebration, to the full moon and to catch up on stories with friends that we haven’t seen in awhile, we arranged a potluck on the beach. Each one of us brought a dish, and we had dinner watching the sun go down, and the moon rising.

We took a dinghy ride to the resort that is on the north side of the bay to use the internet, to check weather, and to call a taxi to visit the town of Guanica. We usually walk, but the road to town is full of S- turns, hills, and, fast cars , so a having a driver is safer.