well ive made it to the end of my first week, only just. the six oclock starts are killing me and the party last night with plenty of rum wasnt what was needed to catch up on my sleep this morning. But day off today so some free time to come into town. the base is really remote, it´s about 40k out of Mahahaul, powers from a generator that we can turn on for a couple of hours each evening and waters from a well so were strictly limited to showers only every t...

Mexico at last. The water really is as blue as in the pictures, it´s 28 degrees and it took just 5 seconds of paddling for me to forget all about the hours and hoursit took to get here. I´veonly just got the time difference sorted out, all day i´ve been an hour ahead of everyone else which explains why none of the people I was expecting to meet for dinner were there! still I met some other lovely people and had a great evening with them.