SAIL ON GRAIN
  • BLOG
  • OUR STORY
    • WHAT?
    • WHY?
    • AND HOW?
    • THE CREW
    • THE BOAT
  • OUR SERVICES
    • BOAT DELIVERY
    • BOAT HANDLING COACHING
    • SAILING LIFESTYLE COACHING
  • OUR SHOP
    • SAILONGRAIN T-SHIRT SHOP
  • CONTACT US
  • FIND US HERE
  • SHOW YOUR SUPPORT
  • USEFUL INFO
  • COME ON BOARD:)

THERE IS NO PATH TO HAPPINESS:
Happines is the path.

-Gautama Budha-


AT mangrove bight- WHEN LUCK SMILES AT YOU

5/15/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
BATH TIME
There is a phrase in spanish – ‘tienes una flor en el culo’.  Directly translating to English language, is- ‘you have a flower in your ass’.  It means- to be very lucky in something. 
This is what some of our friends use to say about us.  Maybe they are right or maybe not.  Usually, we answer ,there is lots of effort, uncertainness, worries and work behind that all, what they call pure luck.

But this time, at Guanaja , we had to give them the reason. We had flower in the ass😊 We were lucky to be in the right place at the right time.  

After meeting our new friends- Txomin and Doll- we got to know much better the island, Mangrove Bight town and it,s people! Furthermore, during all this pandemic time, we felt safe and sure we are in the best place to ‘survive’ the craziness of the world.  We had wild nature around, amazing coral reefs at sea, lot of wind for energy, water from waterfall ashore and supportive people in town. Not sure if managed to describe it good enough, but this time we were not shamed to accept , how lucky we were!

We had some worries, of course.  For example, what will happen if the island gets infected.  There is no hospital, the nearest one in Roatan island or at mainland.  Would be a lie to say that we didn’t care about it. But living on a boat and having a “cruisers chip” turned on,  we learned to avoid having the too bad thoughts and preferred keep believing in –
don’t worry (taking care) be happy.
Picture
GRAIN DE SABLE AT ANCHOR IN MANGROVE BIGHT BAY
Guanaja government was keeping restricting the unnecessary movement between sectors and there was no hope that it will end soon. Island was still with zero Covid cases, but in the mainland the number of infected people was growing. So, after waiting for about two weeks in El Bight we decided to go to the capital and ask the port captain permission for sailing to other side of the island to stay close to our new friends. In this kind of situation having a small baby on board and talking Spanish helped us a lot to convince the authorities. We got a green light to sail. Even if it was just a permission given by words, without any paper or document signed in. We were told that if we get stopped by police, we have to tell that Bonacca port captain Walter let us go.  
​
For us, that was enough. We prepared the boat and next day early morning set sails to Mangrove
Bight. Had a nice trip with a few stressful moments sailing between coral reefs, where you have to trust more on your eyes than on any electronic chart. And on the boat engine, of course. With a current and wind against these passes can be quite dangerous. But Grain did well and her old engine the same.

The bay was big and well protected from all direction winds, except the northwest. Depths were perfect (3-5 meters) and holding as well (sand). But it was quite windy place. As we experienced later, after the mid-day, winds used to increase a lot. Some days could blow constantly 30-40 knots. Luckily, we had plenty of space for the chain, good Rocna anchor and plenty of area behind, in case we would drag. Besides, later on we dropped our second anchor and felt safe enough to survive any strength of wind and leave our Grain for the first time some nights alone!
Picture
MANGROVE BIGHT TOWN
Picture
LOCAL SYSTEM TO 'PARK' THE BOATS
Picture
LITTLE RIVER AT TOWN
Picture
RETURNING TO BOAT
Picture
JURA AND TXOMIN AT THE TERRACE LOOKING FOR TURTLES TO COME EAT MANGO SKINS
Txomin and Doll invited us to stay at their house and enjoy nights sleeping in comfortable big bed! From their terrace we could see our Grain in the bay and that helped us to be more calm about its safety  (cruisers who lives onboard can understand us very well.)

The new place became our second home where we felt comfortable and relaxed. Doll was preparing tasty meals, Txomin introduced us to his friends and told millions of stories about the island, the town and people.

Jura was the happiest boy in the world. Because of his blonde hair locals were calling him “El Canchito” and he was all day long playing in the backyard of the house, meeting other kids and eating coconut and mangoes in amazing quantities.
Picture
COOLING DOWN :)
Picture
WATER AND FUN
Picture
JURA AND HIS 'TOY`'
Picture
JURA,S SWIMMING POOL !
Picture
'EL CANCHITTO' - THATS HOW LOCAL CALLED OUR BLONDY JURA
Covid restrictions in Guanaja were not so hard as in other parts of the world. People could not be on the streets after the sunset and some weekends were obliged to stay at home. But island continued zero infected, so people were quite relaxed and we hardly noticed the difference from the other normality. After the dark all the bars had to be closed and gathering of big groups was prohibited, so the town was more relaxed and the traffic much smaller.
​
I forgot to mention before, but Guanaja has just 4 kilometres of asphalted road! Just 4 km! The road goes between Mangrove Bight and Savanah. And still, there were big number of cars and mottos around, which they said use to be bigger before Covid times! ​
Picture
DAILY WALK
Picture
NO TIME TO BE BORED WHEN YOU HAVE BABY ON BOARD:)
People we met were so friendly, opening us the doors of their houses, presenting us fruits, cakes, fish, lobsters, clothes and even the diapers for Jura! There were moments, when we were asking what we’ve done so good to deserve such hospitality?  Honestly,  didn’t know how to thank all this attention we received.

So at least now, writing this post we would like to say huge thanks to Txomin and Doll for their incredible hospitality, to Karen and her amazing family for great time spent together and super nice good-by party they made for us, to George and Ginger from Clear Water Paradise Resort for chill out at their pool and nice talks,  to Daniel for letting us using his peer and inviting us to cook with him, to South African couple living just on the coast and being our great neighbours, for cousin of Doll for fresh milk and for many more amazing people we met, but , sorry, could not remember all names now.    
​
See you soon , Mangrove Bight!
     
 
Picture
ENJOYING BREAKFAST TIME WITH KAREN AND HER FAMILY ON BOARD
Picture
ALONDRA AND JURA HAVING FUN
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    THE STORY

    This is a story about our life journey or better said is a story about our life afloat a sailing boat. Our trips, our adventures, our challenges and problems found on the way. Our everyday life floating and our unforgettable moments of sailing and tasting the worldl!
    ​

    RSS Feed

    CATERGORIES

    All
    ARUBA
    ATLANTIC OCEAN
    BABY ON BOARD
    BAY ISLANDS
    BEQUIA
    BVI
    CANARY ISLANDS
    CAPE VERDE
    CARIBBEAN SEA
    CARRIACOU
    CAYMAN ISLANDS
    CENTRAL AMERICA
    COVID
    DOMINICA
    GRACIOSA
    GRENADA
    GUADELOUPE
    GUANAJA
    GUATEMALA
    HIERRO
    HONDURAS
    JAMAICA
    LANZAROTE
    MANGROVE BIGHT
    MARTINIQUE
    RIO DULCE
    SAINT MARTIN
    ST.VINCENT AND GRENADINES
    SURINAME
    TOBAGO

    ARCHIVES

    April 2021
    March 2021
    July 2020
    May 2020
    March 2020
    January 2020
    June 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015


    Picture

    OUR  BOAT CREATIVE MINI  SHOP!


    Picture
    HIRE US!
    Need a skipper for delivery,  boat charter, teaching you to improve your sailing or learn cruising secrets online?
    ​Check here for more!

    Picture
    WHERE ARE WE NOW?

    RSS Feed

      Enter your email address to follow this blog
      ​and receive notifications of new posts by email

    Newsletter

    RSS Feed

    "Cruising has two pleasures. One is to go out in wider waters from a sheltered place. The other is to go into a sheltered place from wider waters."
    - Howard
    ​ Bloomfield

    
    "The lovely thing about cruising is that planning usually turns out to be of little use."
    -  Dom Degnon


    "There are more sharks on the land than in the sea"
    - Neil Wheatley


    If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.
    -   Pete Goss


    Don't worry about the world ending today. It's already tomorrow in Fiji.
    - Daria Blackwell
     
    " Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit."
    - Brooks Atkinson


    "A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind. Live passionately, even if it kills you, because something is going to kill you anyway."
    — Webb Chiles, Sailor
    "A bad day at SEA is still better than a good day at work"
    "The perfection of a yacht's beauty is that nothing should be there for only beauty's sake."
    - John MacGregor
    "Remember 'It was a professional who built the Titanic, It was an amateur who built Noah's Ark" 
    - Vanessa Linsley
    "Sailing - The art of slowly going nowhere at great expense. "
    - Pirate Batey
    When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.
OUR STORY
If you enjoy reeding our blog, it inspires you and gives you good vibes- throw a small donation our way to help fund our adventure.  
​Every little coin helps keep us afloat!
Some of the links on this website are affiliate links . This means that, at ZERO cost to you, we will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase.
Sailongrain.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a way for websites to earn advertising revenues by advertising and linking to [Amazon.com or .ca, .co.uk, etc.]

  • BLOG
  • OUR STORY
    • WHAT?
    • WHY?
    • AND HOW?
    • THE CREW
    • THE BOAT
  • OUR SERVICES
    • BOAT DELIVERY
    • BOAT HANDLING COACHING
    • SAILING LIFESTYLE COACHING
  • OUR SHOP
    • SAILONGRAIN T-SHIRT SHOP
  • CONTACT US
  • FIND US HERE
  • SHOW YOUR SUPPORT
  • USEFUL INFO
  • COME ON BOARD:)