After a pleasant four-day stay in the delightful anchorage at Suakin, Sudan, we plan to leave tomorrow morning (Thursday 23rd March). I will eventually post the rest of our adventures in Djibouti and write more about our stay here and the reason for all the ruins that surround us. In the meantime, however, we want to use a weather window of light winds to head out to the reefs just north of Port Sudan. Hopefully we will be able to enjoy a couple of days with snorkeling before we have to take shelter in another bay while some stronger, northerly winds pass through. The only potential spanner in the works is that we are struggling to complete our US income tax online submission but the internet connection here is so poor that it is making that process very difficult. If necessary, we will have to dash as quickly as possible to our next port.

Whenever conditions again improve to light winds or, ideally, southerly winds, or if we have to get to a better internet connection immediately, we will then continue as far north as possible in the Red Sea. If we are not delayed for too long, we may try to go to Aqaba, Jordan, at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba. If we have to wait for a quite a while, then we will probably head straight into the Gulf of Suez and prepare to go through the Canal. Either way, we are likely to be without internet access for at least a couple of weeks (maybe significantly longer), until we get to either Aqaba or Suez. If you are wondering where we have got to, remember that you can track us at: https://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/SV_Tregoning/