We wake early as usual and find ourselves still anchored in the same spot as last night. Always good!
Preparations on Chessie, Crazy Horse and Ocean Jasper are obviously underway for the relatively short passage to Recife. Although it’s only about 400 miles, it won’t be a particularly pleasurable passage. The weather reports are all predicting light winds on the nose, so there will be a lot of motoring. On top of that, WARC boats that have already made the trip have reported fishing vessels quite far out to sea that have no lights but huge nets out. Great. It could be that we actually have to sit and look out from the helm. If we do, we’ll definitely have to change our watch routines as we can’t sit there for five hours.
We go over to each of the boats in turn to say goodbye, sad that they are leaving. Mike wants to leave tomorrow although I would be happy to stay an extra day and leave on Tuesday. We’ll see what the weather reports bring.
David, a lone sailor on a 23 foot boat, paddles his canoe over to chat for a while. Alone on a tiny boat with no air conditioning, water maker, generator ie none of the things which make sailing more comfortable, he has been sailing for the last two years and even done an Atlantic crossing. I take my hat off to him.
Mike and I get some computer work out of the way then go over to the village for lunch. We time it late, as being the weekend, the restaurants are filled with locals eating out and the staff get stretched in the kitchen. We have an octopus and shrimp moqueca, which is much better than the one we had the other day – truly delicious with all the accompaniments. We eat as much of it as we can as I know I won’t have to cook tonight if we leave here full.
Photos: Mike and I enjoying our moqueca
I have enjoyed all the moquecas that I have eaten and slowly savour this one as it will probably be my last. It is a traditional Bahian dish (Bahia is the province we are in) and Recife will have its own regional dishes. Maybe the cooking will be even better there – who knows.
We load our full stomachs into the dinghy (after untangling it from between the ferries) and go back to Jeannius for a little afternoon nap. After that it’s more computer work, TV and bed.
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