Second day on the Cayo . 1/30

It rained during the night and several times throughout the day. We went to the beach resort a bit later. I took another swim off the beach and another shower at the open beach rinse showers. I laid a bit in a beach lounge chair and walked the length of the 2 mile beach in both directions. The seas were quite calm yesterday with no surf but during the night a small surf had accumulated some sea vegetation along the beach. Small waves were still rolling in.

We did the lunch buffet again but I had discovered a smaller lunch buffet at the beach snack bar for $6 and decided on that. It seemed the more popular place as I was one of about 40 people eating there.

Captain chose not to swim either yesterday or today but did use the beach rinse shower to bath. Yesterday after heading out to the boat after both eating too much at the $8 equivalent lunch buffet we both scrapped the hull of marine growth. At 7 pm yesterday we went to the bar to catch news for the weather but it was really quite worthless as a marine forecast. Today, Captain hooked up the halyard antenna for his portable SSB receiver and the signal was good. He connected it to his laptop and we have a marine forecast for the next few days.

We are down for being cleared by the guarda at 7 am tomorrow but are convinced we will not get off early enough by the time captain goes to get him and we then put the dinghy up on deck. We plan to leave where we're now anchored and tuck around to a nearby bay. Then we'll wait for evening and leave as the sun sets and sail the 38 NM through the night. It should be daylight by the time we get to the next pass through the reef. I get the feeling we might arrive to this next reef pass before sunrise but time will tell.