I'm happy to report that we had a spectacular sail over here yesterday. We had 6 inch seas and about 10+ kts of wind. We coasted along at 5+ kts for the entire 37 miles. It was incredibly relaxing. If only every day was like that! We had a wonderful dinner of grilled pork tenderloin and watched a movie until we both fell asleep. The only problem is that there's an abundance of mosquitos here.
A tropical wave was supposed to move through here this afternoon, but arrived about 12 hours ahead of time. With it came line after line of showers, which meant that every time it started raining we had to open the screen above the bed and close the hatch. Of course the mosquitos were congregated there and decided that this was an invitation to come in and have dinner. For the next half hour or so we'd be turning the light on to kill the mosquitos and just about the time that we were done killing them, the rain would have ended, which meant that you'd open the hatch back up and some more would come in! Arghhh!!!
Today we're just going to hang out here and relax. It's truly the first day that we've just relaxed since we left Key West, early last May. It's been a long, long haul and both Sue & I are just worn. It's going to be very good to get to Guatemala.
When the clouds clear we're going to go diving. I can't wait! The water is beautiful and it's been a long time since we've enjoyed it. I can't decide if I should take my camera or spear gun. Decisions, decisions! Tomorrow it's on to Glover's reef, where we've never been, and it's supposed to have spectacular diving.
Bill departed yesterday out of Belize City. It was nice having him aboard, but it's also nice having the boat to ourselves. This is not a slam on Bill or any of our guests. One thing that I've learned is that having guests aboard is very difficult. Cruising boats are finely tuned for the daily inhabitants and everything is typically in a fine balance. Everything, and I mean water, electric, refrigeration, food, fuel and even little things such as ice have to be carefully balanced and controlled. You just can't easily pull in and pick up supplies in a lot of the areas where we cruise. Even if there is a place to pick up supplies, there's a good chance that they won't have what you want. And all of this has to be done in the confines of a 40' boat. For guests I'm sure that the constraints of the boat are taxing, and having to explain and attempt to compensate for the additional loads are hard on us. But it's also very nice to be able to share the boat and the beautiful cruising grounds., so please, come on down!
That's is from here. It's lunch time and then it's off to dive, dive, dive!
- Geoff & Sue
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