OFF AGAIN

December 11th 2012

CAPE VERDE

OFF AGAIN        

We have now made a very important decision – we are going to prise ourselves off this jetty an make our way over to the Caribbean. The books we were waiting for never did arrive so we have now had our refund from Amazon and will just have to do without them. However, by waiting so long for these pilot books for the Lesser Antilles (7 weeks no less) we now will have no time to visit them anyway, so it will be a straight trip to Panama. We are not too disappointed as we were feeling less inclined to stay in the Caribbean and more inclined to spend as much time as possible in the Pacific. So Dave has just gone on a march to the docks to try and retrieve our boat papers from the Maritime Police and get our passports stamped ready for tomorrow. This is definitely not a nice place in town to go to as there are dozens of men just hanging about the port entrance which is quite intimidating. But there are quite a number of police wandering about and the main police building is just across the road. Then it is the last food shop, pay the last of the marina bill, retrieve the last wash from the laundry and a thousand other things and then off in the morning. No matter how many lists I write and work out a timetable, there is always a last minute rush of “why did we not do that sooner!”

Help!!!!

It is tomorrow  and we are in imminent danger of being ready. The last glitch is that the cash machines are not working and we can’t go till we pay our bills! But most of the stuff is stowed, just have to put the air conditioner to bed for the journey, turn on the engine and we should be on our way.

The editor is standing by to do the blogs from the journey, so if it is not too bumpy bumpy there should be updates.

Now it is leaving first thing tomorrow morning just after the sun is up!