Forgot to mention, before we arrived in San Andres the last time, we noticed our headsail UV sunbrella protection looked frayed. It must have chafed a bit on the spreaders at some point. We pulled it down and found all the UV protection needs to be restitched. That would be a big job, by hand aboard! I don't think my sewing machine will do that kind of thing so we'd have to do it by hand. Thankfully, we have a 110 jib that's never seen the light of day. We unearthed that and put the 130 away. It's working just fine, so far. Hopefully we'll be able to find a sail repair in Rio Dulce so we can have it done professionally. The sails are 30+ years old, but are generally in good shape.
We took a local bus around Providencia. Quite an experience with all the locals. The bus is completely open air, with a couple of tarps to roll down if it rains. The music was blaring from at least 4 large speakers (like the kind we have at home) strapped/bungeed to the corners. The people here are far more akin to Jamaicans or Bajans than to Colombians. Many swap from Caribbean dialect to Spanish to English easily, although some speak only one of the latter two. They are very friendly and helpful. The anchorage here is one of the calmest, and probably the shallowest, we've been in. We have about 6' below the keel. I'd be very worried about anchoring here if there weren't 10 or so other boats in the same area. Coming in, the charts were off by at least 1/4 mile. Thankfully, the channel is well marked as our charts indicated we were going directly over the reef.
We had a great lunch, yesterday, at the Bamboo Fishhouse restaurant. It wasn't cheap, $19 a plate, but the ginger coconut milk prawns were excellent. We will probably check out and leave either tomorrow or Monday in order to meet up with Zephyrus before their son arrives.
Now that we have internet, I will also add some photos below of our stay in Providencia.
This is a photo of the Bamboo Fishhouse dock...those of you who know me would easily be able to figure out how I feel about getting out of the dinghy onto a dock like this!
That being said, if we could have the coconut shrimp there again, I'd be gladly jumping onto that dock!!
This fisherman caught a barracuda and was cleaning it. Wow, what big teeth you have!!
In town we waited for the local bus to circumnavigate the island. That's an interesting way to do it.
The music was blaring and the people came and went. We loved the braids on this young girl.
This was our bus leaving to go around one more time.
It happened to be "day of the child" there and there was a parade and a program down by the dock.
All the school kids were wearing their colours or sports uniforms.
Catalina Island is attached to Providencia by a small pedestrian bridge. Catalina has a lovely little waterfront walk with these great tiles that appear all wavy, but are flat.
Something's lost in the photos, but it was really quite unique.
This is also part of the walkway and the bridg.
There was a trail out to where there was supposed to be a rock that looked like a head of Capt. Morgan. We started the walk, but it was quite long and would take much longer than we had if Ralph dragged me behind him. So, I waited at the beach and he contined.
Of course, he got there and can you see a head here? No, me neither!
A nice shot of the anchorage from Morgan's Head.
Fortuitous awaiting our return.
As we were leaving through the channel, Ralph took another shot...well, I might be able to see a profile there.
This is how much sail we had up as we were still doing over 5kts. The sea conditions are deceiving as all the wind and weather and seas are coming from behind. However, after 3 nights we arrived safe and sound in Roatan, Honduras where we are now.
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