We exchanged a couple of T-shirts, a pair of sunglasses and a little bottle of shampoo for bananas, coconuts and pamplemousse.  No one is interested in US dollars or Euros.  Even local currency (which we didn’t have yet) is of little interest compared to exchanging.  Toiletries, clothes, sunglasses, wine, fish hooks, masks and snorkels, diesel, oil and petrol are all very much in demand.

Bananas only take 24 hours to ripen hung off the back.  After that the challenge is to keep them from going completely over-ripe.  Lakeland green bags, in plastic boxes, in the fridge works very well.  The skins go black but the banana itself stays in good condition for a couple of weeks.

Pamplemousse (huge grapefruit) and papaya ripen happily in a hammock in the galley.