Bye Bye Luperon!
We are leaving Luperon Bay this morning (Friday).
There are five or six boats leaving around Thursday night and Friday morning. We are sailing together with three other boats. It will take 24 hours to the next stop. The waves are about six foot high and I am being seasick.
It is a sunny morning (Friday) and everything seems reasonably calm. Peter is reading a book peacefully in the cockpit. I am lying down in the cockpit with a blanket and get up sometimes to throw up!
It’s three o’clock in the afternoon, nothing has changed. I am still throwing up sometimes when I am not sleeping. We switched to take the different seasick tablet. It is good that Peter is not being
seasick.
We sailed through the night (Friday / Saturday) and the ocean was more quiet than day time. I felt better at calm sea and shared the night watching the boat. We decided to anchor at Puerto Escondido before going to Samana. I have not eaten for a day other than fruit juice.
We anchored at about 10:30 am and took a rest first. We are in Puerto Escondido (aka La Vale), it is beautiful here like a Norwegian Fiord with Palm trees. There was a boat anchored in the Anchorage with a German flag. We talked on the radio. It was Leon from Luperon, Aphrodite with four kids came later and anchored. We all come from Luperon. Finally we try to think about what I can eat now. We boiled eggs for breakfast and had soup for lunch. Need to get some energy back into the body.
Peter is working on the Altinator for charging the battery as a wire broke in the night and we seem to have a leak in the dinghy. As we did not sail for 6 months, it is not bad at all to have only two problems.
Last night before we left Luperon, our Spanish teacher, Nilsa came to the boat. She brought a hat and a dress for me. She also brought packs of Fruit Juice. We have been drinking this juice all day long and night. She was in tears to say the fairwell to us.
We left Puerto Escondido at 3AM Sunday, I was sleeping. Peter says the leaving was beautiful, serine high cliffs, pure starlight to navigate by, who needs GPS, a gentle swell. Dawn saw us off the spectacular cliffs of the eastern DR. As always anything of natural beauty reminds Peter of Devon and Cornwall. A broad reach south took us into Samana Bay.
We saw this angry person staring out towards Puerto Rico, I guess you would be angry having to face the strong trade winds all the time.
Samana Bay is beautiful and the Marina is luxurious too. We swam in an infinity pool on a second floor with a beautiful view of Samana Bay. Samana town’s Harbour is interesting enough. I thought I could see fishing boats with loads of fish but all the boats are tourists going into the small islands.
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