Santa Maria, Ilha do Sal, Cape Verdes

Wednesday started with part two off the hull scrub for Kevin and another trip to the internet café for me. We used the same technique of Kevin giving me a lift in with a rendezvous for 11am. It was another fine and sunny day and I went straight to the internet café and updated another day on the blog and checked our emails etc. Our car is up for sale again on eBay after the previous buyer tried to offer less that he had bid when it came to collection and was obviously wasting time. We have however had one bid already of the offer he made with 5 days to go, so it is looking like it was well worth not accepting his offer which we didn’t want to on principle as a system like eBay only works when everyone plays by the rules.


Kevin cleaning the hull

I managed to pick up a grib file for the weather which I had run out of time for the day before and despite computers freezing up etc, there were no power cuts and I made it back for rendezvous just in time. Kevin had managed to complete his hull scrubbing, so I made us some pasta for lunch and we spent a lovely afternoon watching the windsurfers and kite surfers off the back of the boat.







Watersports on view from the boat

We also did a bit of snorkelling just around the boat which unfortunately hasn’t the visibility of the mornings as the swell and wind generally are stronger in the afternoon which picks up the sand. There were however quite a few fish on the bottom under the boat, even though it is just plain sand and we had a tiny zebra striped fish about 10mm long dancing around the prop.



Invincible at anchor

In the evening we had another moonlit meal in the cockpit after all that fresh air. The daylight here, this far south is about equivalent to the darkness, sunrise being about 06:30 and sunset about 18:30 which is readjusting our body clocks and we find ourselves sleeping earlier and longer and waking much earlier.