AT mangrove bight- WHEN LUCK SMILES AT YOU

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.

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.  
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For us, that was enough. We prepared the boat and next day early morning set sails to Mangrove

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