Today the skies opened up and Palau received a welcome deluge after months of drought. Unfortunately we were downtown Koror with a load of groceries in our backpacks and only our bicycles as transportation. We waited and waited and waited for even a slight break in the driving rainfall, during which time we met George one of the parking attendants at the Western Caroline Trading Company (WCTC) who traded with us stories of cold rain in Seattle (or in his case Tacoma where all of his children live). Finally we shrugged and took off, whooshing down the streets of Koror, trying to avoid cars and buses - "Long Rainbow Happy Tour" - oblivious to the mucky splashes they sent up in our faces. By the time we got back to Sam's - where everyone was abuzz collecting water - we were streaked in mud and soaked to the core. And cold!
At 4/20/2016 and 7:17 UTC (GMT) our position was: 07°20.40'N / 134°27.06'E.
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We got rain today too!! It was wonderful... not a lot but way better than none and scorching sunshine!
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