We are sitting in Aruba at the moment. We were going to stop in curaçao but after reading our old 2008 cruising guide of the Caribbean which says you have to go to the main town to check in, we called customs on the radio and were told that we had to turn around and go back to spanache town and anchor and catch a taxi to customs. We were put off because it was blowing 25 knots and we didn't want to bash into it, so we carried on sailing and found a secluded anchorage on the north west coast for the night, we didn't get off the boat just put our q flag up. It's a shame because it looked really nice !

We are now in the main town oranjestad sitting on anchor , not very impressed so far but we haven't really had much time to look around, lots of casinos and tourists from cruise ships. We have met a few boats going through the Pacific, we are going for drinks tonight on a 50 ft catamaran which is nice!

will blog again tommorow !