We just had 10-15 small stingrays around the boat and around in the anchorage, but difficult to photo, as only the tip of the fins came up like sharks fins .
I am busy .............knitting socks for Thomas and then Anna. I am about to sow some covers for the helm and winches. The bimini is to be renewed but that is to be done professionally. David has just re-wired the water pump so that the water comes freely and does not stop half way through a shower!
We met up with the other cruisers last night, as always, on Thursday night for pizza and cheep beer at a palata (palm-hut) restaurant near by.
It is very windy most of the time from the North, which is nice as the temperature is around 30 degrees C with a humidity of 75-80%. At night it is cooler and comfortable with a sheet as cover.
We have porridge for breakfast and eat a lot of fresh tropical fruit.
There's a boat near us from sunny Aberdeen, must go and meet them.
You know, I can drive the dinghy myself, mind you, I nearly tumbled out the back of it the other day as I gave the outboard a bucket of coal..... too much and too fast, and the boat flew forward
, but I stayed on board and did not become shark-food this time.
When we have got the new dinghy, the new generator, the plate for the freezer fitted, completed fitting of new navigation instruments when the boat comes up on the hard for antifouling..... when all that is done we will move on. We plan to go back to Ecuador. On the way there we hope to visit the Darian rainforest and up a river to visit a primitive tripe of Indians.
We leave the boat in Ecuador as we did last year before we come home. As always, our plans are written in the sand at low tide below the high tide-mark.
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