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| My captain at his element |
Hooray hooray...we are underway! At last we are moving on ORION :) Many thanks to our friends Richard and Mercedes, who will take care of that last piece of mail we are awaiting in Ponce thereby freeing us from having to wait around seemingly endlessly (!)...you guys are the very best :)
There will be a separate post on our friends soon :)
We left Ponce Harbor for Coffin Island, stayed there another night and all of a sudden we decided that it was time to really move on now! Just like that :)
I guess when it hits you it hits you...and my captain and I didn't waste any more time to think about it! We are fully provisioned and as ready as can be...and "the bug" has caught us at last...the being free sailing bug, hahaha.
Vieques and Culebra here we come!!!!
Coffin Island is beautiful and it will remain in our hearts forever...
We left Coffin Island and set sail for Boca Del Infierno by Salinas. Boca Del Infierno is a so called staging area for cruising boats...meaning that it is a perfect place to arrive late in the afternoon, stay the night tucked in behind the reef and then get on the way early the next morning...refreshed for the journey ahead :)
This is exactly what we did!
We left Boca Del Infierno (yes...refreshed) in the morning and set sail for Puerto Patillas...another staging area when sailing to Vieques or Culebra.
We arrived at Puerto Patillas late afternoon...
Puerto Patillas is a small fishing harbor and during the week it is very quiet there...only on weekends and holidays there are a few too many jet skies for our liking!
We arrived there late afternoon and spent the rockiest night ever (!)...Puerto Patillas is usually a calm anchorage, but not for us this time! Ah well...sometimes it's okay to rock'n'roll and there was nothing we could do about it, so we enjoyed,the night anyways...but honestly were glad to leave the next morning :)
Today, Tuesday, November 20, 2012 early in the morning we set sail from Puerto Patillas to Vieques where we arrived early afternoon :)
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| Green Beach, Vieques |
We are now anchored off Green Beach, Vieques...a heavy thunderstorm just moved through, but our anchor is set good, so no worries...tomorrow we shall move on to our final destination (for now)...Culebra, one of the finest jewels in the Caribbean and home to some of our good cruiser friends, who are awaiting us :)...Life is good.
