Cayo beach resort . 1/29

The title is not the name of this resort just a discription. We spent our first day here. Going to the dock about 9 am. It's quite a nice resort. Lots of Europeans are staying here. In addition to guests staying in the cabanas, day beach visitors also come on the ferry which has a morning and evening round trip service. I took a swim off the nice 2 miles long beach and we laid in the sun. Beach showers were nice as I'd not bathed since 3 days. We had hoped to top up our potable water and gasoline and access the Internet based on what was mentioned in a cruising guide? No such luck on all 3. We both scrapped the hull today with mask and snorkel.

Hearing English right behind us on the beach we met a couple from the U.S. doing a day visit along with 3 others from Denmark. We also met the woman from a boat we'd met at the previous Marina. It's a British couple taking a number of years to sail around the world.

3 other sailboats arrived around 2 pm. We watched as check-in for them went quite nicely. One boat dinghies over to pick up the guarda. Went finished with that boat he had that captain take him to the next boat. Once through with that boat he was taken to the 3rd. Finally the 3rd boat returned him to the dock. Quite a contrast to captain's 4 trips to pick the guarda up to get cleared. The successful dinghy trip being well after dark. While we knew the boat that was here before us, the 3 new arrivals we've not seen before. One anchored somewhat near us is flying a Norwegian flag.

The plan is to be here one more day here continue west early morning, January 31. If it takes too long to get cleared out by the guarda, we will go just a short ways and anchor another night so we can get an early start. An early start is important as we have to navigate through the reef pass and back in again 38 NM further down which has to be in daylight.