Isla Cebaco, Jan. 15th

We are presently in an anchorage on the north-east side of Isla Cebaco. We arrived here yesterday afternoon, with an escort of 3 bottlenosed dolphin. They stayed by us until well after we were anchored. In fact, Nuage invited us over for some sundowners and enroute to their boat, by dinghy, we had two in our bow wake!! That's a bit frightening as they are very large dolphin and are actually longer that our dinghy!!

We will stay here today as our next trip, to Bahia Honda (deep bay), is 35 nm's and requires a very early start when travelling at 4 to 5 kts. per hour...something none of us were prepared to do today. The anchorage is very calm and warm at 25.5 degrees, but is still murky. There are a few villagers on shore and a few buildings, some are made completely of thatching. We will go explore a little later today.

Nuage under spinnaker enroute to Cebaco.

A little church on Isla Cebaco.

Beautiful hibiscus flowers everywhere near the houses and buildings on the beach. I don't think they're wild, but who knows?

A Fisherman's panga and Nuage and Fortuitous off in the distance.

Wild orchids.

This is our new screen wallpaper!

These little kids were having a grand time in the panga.

One little guy was hiding under that blue tarp.

A mangrove tree along the shore and Fortuitous in the background.

We had quite a rainstorm here and, although it's a bit blurry (because of the rain) you can really feel for this poor fisherman trying to get back to shore in his no-freeboard dugout!

Again, hard to see but absolutely pouring...warm rain though!