We decided to head back to Isla Majures for a bit of rest and recreation before going back to St Maartin where things would be hectic getting the boat ready. We arrived to find some of the old crew had left but replaced by a group of Canadians that get together each year. We spent our days lying on the beach, drinking margaritas, tequila, and eating great Mexican food. Life is good!!! We did go into Cancun one day to determine what we needed from Wal-Mart. Great place to shop for cheap home wares and Si picked up cheap locks, lures tools. All essential boy stuff!! We spent that afternoon trying to find someone who would print the 50 maps we had copied before heading off. It took four attempts before we found someone who could do it. We got there in the end. The highlight apart from spending many drunken evenings with Phil and Nina on the Verandah, was the Banana Daiquiri party. This is an annual event and they take a photo of everyone staying at the time. Theo (alias Dame Edna) was the serving wench and looked fairly convincing. We made vegemite sandwiches which surprisingly were as a great success. We had dinner that night with Linda and Leigh as Leigh went fishing and kindly shared his catch with us. Very good!!!!

We went back to Cancun a day early to do our shopping and finish off printing the maps. We managed to fill three tubs full on stuff. Our luggage went from one backpack to four pieces, two maps holders and a pressure cooker (10 liters). We packed all our goodies into the three tubs in the McDonalds section of Wal-Mart. Not surprisingly, we had a number of people come over and ask us what we were doing. We finally got back to our hotel and taped the tubs and got ready to leave. We had an early flight. We arrived at the airport around 6.30am. Got our tubs wrapped in plastic, got to the check in only to be told that they tubs had to be inspected. Si was in the process of opening then (none to happy) when we where told that our flight did not leave until tomorrow. Regardless to say, we were not talking at this point. We decided to get the bus back to Cancun that involved carrying all the luggage
to the bus station (no trolleys). We finally got back to the hotel. The weather turned crappy so we watched TV, drank tequila and had some great food from a stall across the road. It all ended up being a very nice day. The next day went like clock work and we where on the way to St Maarten.