These pics cover the time that Lotte and Pauline crewed aboard Andiamo. With them as crew, Andiamo got to Cayos Cochinos, Roatan, and we almost made it to Guanaja (long story, read the post about it!). In fact, Lotte took most of these pics! They came aboard knowing next to nothing about sailing, and ended up becoming very able sailors in a short time. Not to mention that Andiamo got slammed with the worst weather we’ve seen at sea, and the girls handled it with aplomb. Most surprising to me were their excellent attitudes when things did go hairy.
I’m proud of them, and we had some great times onboard Andiamo, despite the many challenges.
Before Andiamo left for Cayos Cochinos and Roatan, we were invited to a fun little daylong party out at Water Cay by Monica and the folks at Tranquila. Water Cay is an uninhabited Cay that is mainly a “park” that you can boat up to and hang out at all day. This was a tradition of theirs that they do after ‘Semana Sante’ is over to let off a little steam after a crazy time on the island. There was a lot of beer, food, rum and beer. So, of course we couldn’t say no.
Some final shots of our Utila activities before we left:
Our sail to Cayos Cochinos:
After our lovely 2 night stay in Cayos, we headed out towards Roatan’s French Harbour:
From French Harbour, we ventured over to Roatan’s West End, but we didn’t quite make it because we got hit by a nasty squall. The posting titled “A three hour tour” tells all about it, here are the pictures:
Once we got the boat squared away, and the weather stabilized, we headed off to the West End of Roatan:
Some pics of our attempt to get to Guanaja, which was foiled by horrendous winds, current, and the girls getting pretty majorly seasick. So we aborted the mission and headed back to West End.
Since we had just left West End, we opted to go to another part of Roatan. So we went back around to the south-facing side, and ventured to Dixons Cove.
After leaving Dixons Cove, we headed back to the West End for a couple more days, and then it was back to Utila. We wanted to try for Guanaja one more time, but my laptop crashed, thus my primary navigation tool, and we decided just to head back to Utila instead.
