The morning in Big Bight was as peaceful as the evening before.

Plenty of work to be done. Bread was needed and some IT work for FMB. When the dough was resting for the first time, w had breakfast.

A local guy with a dugout canoe came by and offered us coconuts and fishes. We decided for the coconuts. With my brandnew machete I tried to open the coconut. Not easy, but at the end we saw that the guy sold us 3 unripe ones. His lucky day and I paid my study fees.

When the dough was resting for the last time, we took the dinghy and went to the mangrove covered shore. We used the oars as paddles and move silently, like with a canoe to the shore and followed the shore line.

The mangroves fascinate me always since i saw my first ones at Irimote island, the most southern Island is the Roku Islands, the group of islands around Okinawa in Japan. The roots of the mangroves appear like thousands of spider legs entangled into each other. In the water between them, there is a biosphere for all kind of fishes, little crabs, and many more creatures.

When we saw a little stream coming out of the mangroves we went into it and paddled a few hundred meters into the mangrove forest, which was followed by more higher trees. It all looked like a jungle. At one spot we saw started but not yet complete dugout canoe.

Finally we returned to MaRe, prepared her for departure, and took off for a bay at the northern corner of Isla San Cristobal.

For the short passage we just used the engines to also have power to recharge the batteries and cook the rice for the night using our electrical Japanese rice cooker, we have on board.

Tob wanted to steer by compass and got his chance. He did a good job with a pretty straight line. Chapeau, because it’s his first time ona sailing catamaran.

The Bamboo Bight it’s another mangrove surrounded bay with several side bays. We went into as far as we could an dropped the hook at about 10 m.

Quietness. Tranquility. Peaceful.

A few dugout canoes with fishermen, but here also small motor boats. We looked at a house at the shore and saw children sitting at the floor. This showed us again the difference in the way people can live and have to live.

We cooked, had a dip into the water, and enjoyed our dinner. Again talks about many topics.

As there was absolutely no wind and we are close to the shore, we were bothered a bit by the little sandflies. Burning Japanese katirisenko, an insect repelling incense coil helped, as always.

Tob went to bed and I had to do some IT work for FMB before I went to bed as well.

In the very early morning, even before 0400, I woke up from the crows of a rooster living nearby. He made sure that everybody was out of bed as early as he himself.

Today want to take the tender and go up a canal or stream, which leaves from the bay we are in.