IMG_1135.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Honda Our route from Monjes del Sur to Bahia Honda, our first Colombian anchorage.
IMG_1136.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Honda Tonight we eat fresh Sashimi.
IMG_1137.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Honda Tonight we eat fresh Sashimi.
IMG_1138.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Honda Jedi under main sail alone but still passing Gecko as we went around the upper north point of Colombia.
IMG_1139.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Honda Gecko in pursuit. The waves are so high that I made this shot over our radar arch while standing in the cockpit!
IMG_1140.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Honda The first fishing boat with Colombia flag.
IMG_1141.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Honda In close up we can see they have a rough ride.
IMG_1142.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Honda Bahia Honda entrance opening up.
IMG_1143.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Honda Gecko at anchor with 30 kts of wind. The savannah in the background.
IMG_1144.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Honda Looks like some people must live there but it's basically empty country here.
IMG_1145.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Honda Our actual track and anchorage in Bahia Honda. These C-Map 2006 charts are the first to have a complete survey of this bay.
IMG_1146.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Honda Jedi at anchor in an empty country.
IMG_1147.JPG Cruising Colombia: Cabo de la Vela. Ian the sailorman!
IMG_1148.JPG Cruising Colombia: Cabo de la Vela. Anna the.... deck hand ;-)
IMG_1149.JPG Cruising Colombia: Cabo de la Vela. Super tankers again, loading oil at this terminal halfway the trip.
IMG_1150.JPG Cruising Colombia: Cabo de la Vela. Wind generators must be for that oil terminal because there's nothing else!
IMG_1151.JPG Cruising Colombia: Cabo de la Vela. Beautiful blue water filled with Big Eye Tuna and downwind sailing in 30 knots. Perfect!
IMG_1152.JPG Cruising Colombia: Cabo de la Vela. What's that? lava? a pyramid?
IMG_1153.JPG Cruising Colombia: Cabo de la Vela. Cabo de la Vela, still a barren savannah landscape but we're told there's a village here.
IMG_1154.JPG Cruising Colombia: Cabo de la Vela. Our approach waypoint and our vector showing we're actually going around Cayo El Morro. Gecko took the shortcut. El Morro means the Moors...
IMG_1155.JPG Cruising Colombia: Cabo de la Vela. Cayo El Morro with Gecko at final approach for anchoring.
IMG_1156.JPG Cruising Colombia: Cabo de la Vela. This Pelican came to visit "Jedi" while anchored a Cabo de la Vela.
IMG_1157.JPG Cruising Colombia: Cabo de la Vela. Gecko at anchor in 35 knots of wind this time ;-)
IMG_1158.JPG Cruising Colombia: Cabo de la Vela. We're basically anchored at open sea but the protection is very good.
IMG_1159.JPG Cruising Colombia: Cabo de la Vela. Our track and anchorage. Wind is under 20 knots now and the sea water is 28 degrees Celcius again.
IMG_1160.JPG Cruising Colombia: Cabo de la Vela. And there's the fishermen from the village.
IMG_1161.JPG Cruising Colombia: Cabo de la Vela. And there's the fishermen from the village.
IMG_1162.JPG Cruising Colombia: Cabo de la Vela. And there's the fishermen from the village.
IMG_1163.JPG Cruising Colombia: Cabo de la Vela. The next morning the wind is calm.
IMG_1164.JPG Cruising Colombia: Cabo de la Vela. That pelican spent the night on the swimming platform and I had to get angry to get him off.
IMG_1165.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Gairaca. Land in sight after a rough night passage.
IMG_1167.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Gairaca. Our approach waypoint and actual track into the bay.
IMG_1168.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Gairaca. We came from a savannah but are in dense jungle and mountains now.
IMG_1169.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Gairaca. The bay is beautiful, almost like a tropical fjord. There's Red Thread again. They broke the boom vang during the passage a day before us.
IMG_1170.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Gairaca. Gecko anchored in the shallow part (still 30' deep).
IMG_1171.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Gairaca. And Blue Print Match is here too.
IMG_1166.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Gairaca. Jedi is anchored in 50' water; photo taken from the top of the mast of Blue Print Match.
IMG_1172.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Gairaca. Plants growing in the cracks in rocks and splitting them as their roots grow.
IMG_1173.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Gairaca. The bar looks pretty closed...
IMG_1174.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Gairaca. There's the local version of a resort. We hear they get Colombian tourists here.
IMG_1175.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Gairaca. part of the resort.
IMG_1176.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Gairaca. nice paint job!
IMG_1177.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Gairaca. We have no clue what the fence is for...
IMG_1178.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Gairaca. Another bar? oh yes but it turns out they ran out of everything...
IMG_1179.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Gairaca. This river is dry now but it must get wild in rainy season and has to go over a high ridge before reaching the sea. The house lost a wall as the water took the soil with it.
IMG_1180.JPG Cruising Colombia: Bahia Gairaca. So, who said the hollowed out canoes are just in the movies?
