Sailing around the World ( Presently in Salvador, Brazil )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Thu 3 Feb 2011 11:28
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WEDNESDAY 2nd
FEBRUARY 2011
06.00hrs Skipper was wide awake and
decided to do catch up on the blogs, and all the other emails, never ending
stuff.
No sign of any of the other boats yet,
We turned on the generator again, and will leave it
on for the day, the problem with the services on the marina is the
electricity
is 220v and thats ok, but its 60Hz, and our
systems run on 50Hz, particularly the air conditioning, the washing machine, and
microwave,
We repositioned the boat, so she is now stern onto
the marina, and also dressed her overall, ie :- hoisted all our bunting up
the mast.
Sham and Emily took off in one of the nearby
ferries to one of the local Islands in the Bay, while Aileen went off to sort
out
her phone,
Meanwhile, skipper completed some housework on the
boat, like tidy away the wharps, spinniker sheets, dump the garbage,
steep some of the spare ropes in " Comfort"
softner, This really does a great job of softning down the sheets
and ropes that have been
exposed to the salt water and sunshine for too
long.
When finished with the chores, skipper met Susanna
and two newspaper reporters, who then interviewed Skipper for the
local / national newspaper, plus taking millions of
photo's , Susanna did the translating, as skipper has no Brazalian
/Portugese
and the reporters had no english. or worse
still, they had no Irish....
All this took about an hour, and it
was facinating to see that they were very interested in our opinions of
weather changes
and if we could see the effects of " Global
Warming" on the seas as we travelled around the globe...
Today, the local Salvadorian people celebrate the "
Sea Goddess" so there are lots of celebrations, music, guns
firing,
and many other attractive activities. Including
offerings to her.
By midday, the heat was almost unbearable, it
must be in the high 30's and any escape into a building or shaded area was
a
priority at all times.
Later, Aileen and skipper did a walk around the
lower part of the city, calling to
the the phone place and other
institutions,
On the return jurney, we met Sham and Emily by pure
chance in a cafe, so had to have a beer to cool down,
The four of us travelled by taxi up to the higher
level later for dinner, the place we really wanted was closed , so we selected a
nice corner
joint for our food, again this was excellent, we
all had steaks, and lubricated with the appropriate wines,
Of course the return journey had to take in a
stroll around the streets , listening to all the various bands playing their
merry tunes.
One band stood out, about 30 of them, all dressed
in white and wearing white turbines on their heads,
The group were called "Ghandi " something or other,
I presume band,
Eventually, we found our way back to the marina,
where we met Dieter and his crew from " Lady Eve V1" who had just arrived, 2
days
after ourselves, and they departed St, Helena
around the same time as " A Lady " so we were happy with this,
We hit the scratchers, having had an interesting
and varied day,
Thats it.
Signed :- Stephen Hyde ( Skipper
)
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