Hello from Curacao

Hi everyone!
Just dropping a line to let you know whattup. I am here in Curacao, safe from hurricane Dean ( cat 4) which is passing about 200 miles north of me this very moment. I am living aboard Calusa here in a very nice protected marina. We expect the boat will be here until mid-January or perhaps February.
John is back in Gainesville, working with the Gator football team for the football season. I will let him tell you about that himself.
In the mean while, I am here watching our boat, and sometimes other people's boats too. Right now I am babysitting a beautiful dog while his owner is back in the states. Chico is a yellow lab, greyhound (?) mix. I have him for another 5 days or so. He lives on his owners 45 ft catamaran so I get to hang out on that boat whenever I want to.
At the end of this month I am going to Panama to a Spanish language emmersion school. I will spend two weeks there and then two weeks in Costa Rica at the same school, different location. I hope to establish a good foundation of the spanish language so I can build on it and speak spanish fluently some day.
I have been diving here a little bit in Curacao. It is very beautiful! We (John, Chris and I) did a lot of amazing diving when we were in Bonnaire and Curacao is very much like Bonnaire. Most of the dives are right off the shore. You swim out about 100yds and then descend into 60-100 foot underwater paradise. In Bonnaire John, Chris and I got certified to dive on nitrox which is a mixture of air with a higher percentage of oxygen. While I am in school in Panama, I will be taking a diver rescue course. That will improve my own diving skills and I will be able to help another diver in trouble.

I will try to post from Panama and Costa Rica. Supposedly the schools have internet access. I will take my camaera too but, no promises there.
I have been lame with regard to my photography during this trip, which is usual for me. I have managed to upload a few albums into Picassa not much of us sailing but, some other pictures I thought everyone would enjoy. I miss everyone!
Lots of Love, Ro
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http://picasaweb.google.com/robynwwilson/CalusaPurchaseForBlog?authkey=GJwMHri7VhQ
http://picasaweb.google.com/robynwwilson/25thAnniversarySail?authkey=Ktt98y-qjt8
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