This is just a quick note to let you know we are leaving Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador for Callao, Peru tomorrow morning at 5:30 am to catch the rising tide to cross the bar. Our friends Chuck and Linda of SV Jacaranda are leaving at the same time but they are headed to Panama.
Tuesday we caught a ride with Geovanny the taxi driver to the town of Manta, an hour and 15 minute drive from here. Geovanny handled taking our paperwork and passports to immigration to get them stamped. Meanwhile Rich and I did some provisioning at two of the large grocery stores. Now we have food for our journey southward. We treated him to lunch and practiced our Spanish skills. We are getting better and were able to find out about his two kids, a lawyer and a doctor, who both live in Guayaquil along with his two grandchildren. Geovanny drives not only to Manta but to Guayaquil at least three times a week. We wish we had known about him when we got lost with Cristobal.
Anyway, Windarra is prepared and hopefully we are too. It is a little over 800 miles but we will be going against the Humboldt current and into the wind as well so it may be a longer trip. We are guessing about 8-10 days but we will see.
I will try to send some reports along the way. Once we cross into Peruvian waters we need to report into Tramar at 8 am and 8 pm every day.
Cheers,
Elaine and Rich
Sent from Elaine's iPhone
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