Watching Out for Mum!

Wednesday 21st July

Location: On route from Cayo De Agua, Los Roques, to Bonaire

(Edi always sleeps up on deck when I am on watch, just so I'm not alone, I love my son)

We were underway by 4:15am, on our way to beautiful Bonaire. Once again there was no wind, so we were motoring. Bob went to bed, and Edi came up on deck to sleep. It was a clear, but moonless night with calm seas. At daybreak we had picked up a little wind, Bob tried to set the jib, it wasn’t very successful so he rigged up the pole, which holds the jib out preventing it collapsing when the wind drops. We set the staysail on the starboard side, and turned off the engine, our speed dropped from 8 knots to 5, but it was so peaceful without the engine chugging away, we decided it was worth losing a little time to enjoy a couple of hours of quiet sailing.
We arrived at Bonaire around 3pm, we hadn’t seen any whales or dolphins unfortunately, just lots of flying fish, gulls and brown booby’s. There were no moorings available so we had to go alongside in the Village Harbour Marina. Once the boat was settled, we showered changed and went over to La Balandra for dinner, where we enjoyed watching the amazing fish swimming around the deck and an incredible sunset.
I can’t wait till tomorrow to go snorkeling.