Good Progress

I stopped working on this on the first, and yet I made a lot of progress before then!  While the side gargoyles aren't quite finished, the pedestals they sit on are started.  I'll be taking this with me on the trip, so maybe more will be done.

Rusting Away Again In Luanda-ville

These ships and others sit out in the middle of the harbor and rust away.  No care is taken of them.  Many are abandoned by their corporate owners.  The harbor itself, with all the ship-litter, mirrors the town.  Everything is trashed and nothing is preserved or recycled.

Not Quite Stalled

This isn't quite stalled, but I may be able to work on it only one more time before a two week trip.  Don't want to take it off the stretcher bars.  This time it was making another rectangle to fill in, so maybe that one will be done before I head off to Florida.

Looks So Tropical

These photos weren't taken just after dawn.  It was just after nine in the morning as we floated past wrecks in the harbor.  The haze hangs over Luanda for months.  It's humid, but at least not too hot.  Despite all the humidity from the cloud cover, it hasn't rained here since April.  Might be a couple more months until it does.  So this city only four degrees off the equator sits in a gray fog for more than half the year.  The other half of the year it might still be gray from rain clouds or the sun might be brilliant and blinding.  Every day it varies.  Except now, when it's been gray for months.

Love The Colors

Much as the lack of overlap on the chart pages frustrates me sometimes, I love the colors on this.  They're what keep me going with it.

Luanda Harbor

Point and shoot photo time.  These were all taken from the boat as we left the moorings.  Luanda harbor is an enclosed bay about a mile across.  It's tiny.  And the buildings ring the shore like broken teeth.

R2D2

Andreas' outlet here is online shopping.  He found this and thought I should have it, so I now have a new make up pouch.  It feels nice and will hold a bit!