San Andres

Arrived yesterday morning. All is well, but we were very tired and a little salty. Certainly our most uncomfortable crossing to date, with large seas abeam. We took water in the cockpit, and some spray clear over the dodger. Not a lot of fun and we both arrived a little crabby, to say the least. It then took us 6 tries to anchor...not fun. However, we're here and almost checked in. We should be here till the weekend, then on the Albuquerque Cay or Providencia.

Now that we have internet, I can add some photos to our HAM radio sent comments above.  We really like San Andres. It is touristy, but maybe we were ready to be tourists!

 This shot of Ralph was taken when we were leaving Cartagena and before we were in the thick of things on that passage.  It was not fun at all and, if we never see waves like that again, it will be too soon!

 San Andres was a difficult spot to anchor. We tried in one anchorage, 3 times, and finally gave up. Then we moved to another and it still took a couple of tries. After that passage, we were in no mood for that difficult a process.  Then, right after finally anchoring, a nice guy came along and told us we might  not want to be where we were because all the party boats were around us and it could be noisy in the evenings.  At that point, we couldn't have cared less!!  Turns out, it wasn't bad at all and we never did move. This is a shot from their malecon. Beautiful water and a nice sandy beach. San Andres is termed the Hawaii of Colombia.

 We stopped at this nice little restaurant and had a great lunch...just sat there and enjoyed the landlubbers view of the same ocean we'd just endured for 3 nights!!

 We had to do the touristy thing, so we rented a golf cart and circumnavigated the island (about 20 miles). We went to Captain Morgan's cavern. Kind of a rip off, but they did the best they could with what they had.

 Here we are in the cavern. As we decended into the cave, the guide, for this area, told us our tip was purely voluntary. He wasn't so laid-back about it as we walked away saying we'd already put a tip in the box at another area.

 This is outside the "theme park". We forgot to take a photo of our golf cart so this is the only one we have.

 There is Fortuitous looking happy to be  in the water. We had a nice lunch in the yacht club outside which we were moored. The charged us about $4 a day to tie up our dinghy and, for this money, we could have used the pool and showers too.  We also got a discount at the restaurant.

 This was a weird boat with eyes painted on the side.

 Looking back towards the hotel strip. This is a duty free area too, so shopping is a big thing.

It was rather disconcerting to see all the wrecks around San Andres.  However, it is not surprising as there are reefs everywhere.  From here we are off to Albuquerque Cays.