In a little protected lagoon called Cholon
26 May 2018 | Cholon , Colombia
Rolf
Cholon is a very nice lagoon 19 miles south of Cartagena . Inside its flat seas like a lake yuuupppee . Still no wind, so we had to motor EVERYTHING. At the entrance it gets rather narrow But 2 dozen party boats were already in place . So if they make it ...we can do it !! As you try to concentrate on depth and position etc a hole bunch of people , all a bid younger then us , cheered us on. Hey hombre !!! All boys have tattoos and the girls have a piece of dental floth up their rear end ,not much else ...Its difficult to keep my mind on my navigation!!! Its a great bamboo bar right at a sand spit that leads you into the lagoon...This time no Salsa, no Vallenato...its BOOOM BOOOOM BOOOM. And a few kayaks hang on to Yelo ,trying to sell ."lobster senor ,fiiiish senor"...anything..."SENOR" ? Dropped the hock a few meters in , at a safe distance to this "music" :-) hi hi hi And exactly at 5 pm its an eerie silence as all the backpackers have to go home...ooofff ...cool silence
Its so quiet ,i start to think about this sudden climat change we had. Just 200 miles north its bone dry and windy .But here you're body is dripping wet all day . A little breeze doesn't help. Its to humid . Our wet laundry can not get dry . We talked about this coming change in Aruba, because we were fed up with all this wind and sand in the boat....now its mildew and sweat ha ha ha oh well ,we knew it was coming .We have big problems as you can see!
It doesn't look like we get any wind for the next week . And when we cleared out the agent told us "stay a week or 2 longer its ok". After all the complicated and expensive paper work ,this is rather surprising. But he told the same exact story to 3 other boats !! So i guess its ok . We stay a bid...watch the Inovio stocks go down and do...guess what .... maintenance. Next stop Panama if the little wind comes next Wednesday.