Dec. 25-Santa did bring us some presents thanks to Tom & Stanna-I got a beautiful hand-woven scarf made by Stanna and Joe got some honey butter from Durango Colorado. We got underway for a short sail around to El Bight, Guanaja for the Christmas potluck. Joe made his famous conch fritters and I made a chicken and dressing casserole. We all gathered at the Manatee Restaurant-the owners let us use it and they had the bar open. Along with about 30 cruisers there were about 60 expats and locals who live on the island so it was quite a party. Good food and company.
Dec. 26-Decided to stay at El Bight for another day. Got an email from Tom telling us about Graham & Pam’s rescue of a small island skiff. Graham & Pam are caretakers at the other end of Port Royal and were on their way to Tom’s dock when they spotted a small skiff upside down and a local fellow treading water near it-they went over picked up the fellow and righted his boat. They towed it to Tom’s dock and with the help of Tom and other cruisers, they got the engine running, gave the guy a hot shower at Casa Gusto and he was on his way. Another successful rescue
Dec. 27-Dec. 29-We sailed back to Josh’s Cay to sit and wait for a weather window. One night we had happy hour on DejaVu with a bunch of Canadians from 3 other boats. They arrived at 4:30 for a couple of drinks and didn’t leave until 7:30 P.M. those Canuks sure know how to party.
Dec. 30-Listened to the weather on the net and decided to get underway. Went thru the cut at George’s Cay at 10:00 A.M. We went from sailing to motor/sailing to motoring and back to motor/sailing with confused seas and light winds. Anchored at the Viverios at 12:15 P.M. on Dec. 31st – 26 hrs. underway. The Viverios is located close to the Honduras/Nicaragua border-about 100 miles from the coast. It consists of small reefs and sandbars with 4 palm tree covered islands-local Honduran fishermen camping on the islands with their blue plastic tarps. They fish each day to fill a big tender that takes the catch to the mainland. One of the small boats with 4 fishermen onboard came over to our boat asking for beer, cigarettes, soda. We told them we didn’t have any and then they asked for “comida” (food) so I filled a bag with some things and gave it to them. After a beautiful swim in the crystal clear water another boat came over trying to get our attention so we later closed up the boat and had a rather restless night’s sleep.
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