This didnt seem to work last time so here it is again

Hey there Yay here we are in yet another country !!

Nice one Medusa. Let´s see we spent about a week and a half on Isla Meanguera in the Gulf of Fonseca recovering, fixing the boat, drinking coconuts, washing our clothes in the little spring there, chilling under the palm trees, swimming a lot, tried to go for a couple dives but the water wasn´t so clear. Bought some seasickness pills and a stash of ginger.

You guys when we were fixing up the boat on the land we were just working so so hard, just kind of getting everything done, most jobs never really end up being straightforward, you know? You get into it and suddenly you realise that all these other things need doing too, or you need to go to san salvador for this and that, or whatever. After a while something in me was like, this isn´t cool. I´m not into this, this whole boat thing, might not be for me. Then we got in the water and I lost that turnbuckle overboard and i could just see the whole trip crumbling in front of my eyes, i was like, this is never happening, i can´t stand this, why, so much effort, im just bashing my head against the wall. Then there was this sweet few hours after we got out of the lagoon and we were just drinking tea and rolling round in the swells and sailing along nicely. Of course it was only a few hours until mikaela succumbed to the seasickness and i spent like 24 hours really really really not wanting to be on the boat. 

So thats where i was at you guys, on the 31st in the afternoon we were just like, screw this island (although a beautiful island, a week´s enough), let´s go !! So five p.m. on New years eve we just skidded out of that anchorage, going about 5 knots downwind with just the main up ! Whooooo. Took us about sixteen hours to go the fifty something miles to Puerto Corinto, where we are now — for an hour or two we were going 6 knots, most of the time we were going between 4.5 and 5 knots, with only a few hours in the dead of the night and early morning where the wind quieted down enough for us to be sort of slidey sailing at two knots. You guys michaela didn´t even get sea sick!! We had these pills called Dramanyl and a ton of ginger and some fizzy drinks, all those things are good for the tummy eh. Nice it was a great sail! And i was like, huh, that´s right, this is better. We were just having a great time sailing along the coast there and checking out all the fireworks people were setting off ! Once or twice i thought i was gonna have to be dealing with some ghost ships and I´m not sure if they monitor channel 16 or not, in fact, it´s probably not much of a problem if you´re on a collision course with ghost ships becasue I don´t think they crash into you they sort of slide right over. Anyway they were fireworks though, lots and lots of fireworks. 

So we get in to puerto corinto in the a-m-, it´s just a big filthy port with big smokestacks everywhere and giant shipping containers and the filthy water, we can´t do our dishes eh. 

After a wee nap and all that we come in to visit the officials- i ask some dudes near where we park the dinghy how to get to the town and no’one even wants to look at us let alone talk to us. Pretty unfriendly eh. We find the immigration and those dudes and they seem to have no idea what to do with us.  Takes a few hours to sit around and get all that paperwork done, chat with the immigration official, the captain of the port, then we stroll down to customs, he doesnt do much, just asks for twenty bucks and says come back tomorrow for the reciept. It´s a holiday, he doesnt want to revise the boat like he´s supposed to, whatever.

We want to leave today so we get into town early, passing all the surly angry faces again as we cheerfully say good morning! hello!,  to visit the port captain and all of that again to advise them that we´re leaving, go to Customs to deal with that receipt and all that. It´s not a holiday today and there´s different people there. The receipt?? they say. What receipt? Who did you give money to? How much? What did this fella look like??? 

Hahahaha.. Fella scammed me out of twenty bucks !!! Nice one nicaragua. So the boss dude comes out, and he´s very embarrassed and ashamed, a little shaky, I describe the dude, and he calls him up, and he´s like, okay. Come back at noon, the guy will come down and give you the money back. Then this other dude will come and look over your boat. 

So maybe i will get that twenty bucks back, then i´m going to have to row a customs official out to my boat in Munter !!! Hahaha can´t wait for that one. I told them i only have a small dinghy but they got no idea what they´re in for eh.

So looks like we´re not leaving this port for a second, there´s a few days of slightly less windy winds, which I want to take advantage of, definitely don´t wanna chill in this port for like a week. It´s probably the only place where i´ve really felt like, uuurrrghhh, i´m not sure about being two girls sassing round in a little sail boat here. Once i felt a little bit like that ummm in that little anchorage just south of Puerto escondido, in oaxaca, but then i went ashore and chatted to the fishermen dudes and they helped me out here and there and gave me rides to the beach in their pangas and they were good peeps. Here you say hi, how do i get to this place and they´re really surly and strange. Yesterday a guy wanted to tow us out to the boat but i said no no no i want to row, and after i said that about ten times he got the picture. He was a little drunky i think. 

Sooooo might be another long haul to get down to, I don´t know, el astillero? San Juan del Sur?? Find some waves would be nice eh !!! So we´ll see how it goes you guys.  These winds are pretty good, it´s something to just be flying along with just the main up doing five knots. I wouldn´t mind if they didn´t get that much stronger though, I hope medusa´s up for it.  Just gotta keep that mainsheet attached to the boat this time eh !!