 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.
For us, that was enough. We prepared the boat and next day early morning set sails to Mangrove
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¨You are not allowed to touch the land for 14 days. Must go direct to your boat at anchor and stay there mentioned period of time. Since today these are the new rules, we apply for our islands to avoid the Covid-19 ¨
A WHAT????? This was our reaction to what we were told by the officials on early morning of Monday, 16 of March, 2020, after our arrival to the harbour of Bonacca, the little cay and the capital of Guanaja, Bay islands, Honduras. It took us 3 days of beautiful broad reach sail to get here from our last port in Caymans. In reality we arrived to the bay day earlier, on Sunday, but as on weekends all official institutions are closed we decided stay on boat and instead relax and celebrate Egoi 40th birthday. 
JURA IS HIS FAVOURITE PLACE WHILE SAILING
ONE OF GREAT THINGS OF SAILING IS THAT WE CAN FISH AGAIN! MAHI MAHI FOR DINNER
JUST 40:)
That Monday morning, we could not believe what we heard. Before leaving the Caymans we already heard something about Covid in Italy. But we were so concern about checking the weather and planning the trip that did not pay big attention to news. To be honest, we were thinking its another type of Flue and it will end soon.
SAILING FROM ARUBA TO CAYMAN ISLANDS WITH A STOP IN JAMAICA ´ON ROAD´ (2019 DECEMBER UPDATE)3/7/2020  In early November of 2019 we flew back to our Grain de Sable in Aruba. Jura was 13 month old, already walking and with lots of curiosity for discovering the World. He loved the water and sun so we could not wait to start sailing and coming back on life a float. This time in Aruba Grain de Sable crew joined my parents and the plan was to prepare the boat, leave Aruba, sail to Jamaica and enjoy Jamaican southern coast as long as possible.  HAVING FUN IN THE BEACH OF ARUBA ANCHORAGE WOULD BE A CRIME TO COMPLAIN:) We were very exited and having my father and mother aboard was amazing help for both of us. Jura loved traveling, but life on boat with a toddler can be quite hard sometimes. At least in the very beginning. All of us had to get use to new way of cruising😊 Slowing down, being clear about each one responsibilities, keeping eye on our boy in every moment and forgeting about usual tidiness were some of the new things which become casual when you have baby on board.
Thankfully with five of us on board my mother could dedicate time to Jura, me do some small tasks on boat and Egoi with my father fully prepare the boat. |
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