Hear we are rocking and rolling along in winds of 25 - 30 knots. A huge lumpy sea and shippping the occasional wave into the cockpit.  At least it is very warm.  My herb garden which I thought I had stowed well under the dodger set fly and landed at Jonathan's feet so he was up to his ankles in earth in the middle of the night, so out came the dustpan and brush and buckets of water, another lesson learnt.  Dinner last night had to be out of bowls and eating with a spoon.  I marinaded Chicken breasts in sesame oil, sesame seeds, brown sugar, garlic, ginger and soy sauce balsamic vinegar & lime then cooked them on the griddle. I also made a sauce out of a small amount of coconut juice, corriander leaves, mint leaves, a small green chillli, lime juice, garlic, half advocado,cumin , sugar, and baymixed it in the bowl to make a sauce. Served chopped up breast and sauce on a bed of plain rice and broccoli sprouts.  It was good but found that when I came up on deck and moving from galley to cockpit I felt queasy so only nibbled at the rice and broccoli.  Fen and Jonathan ate with great gusto and had my helping!  Fen and John have moved into the main saloon to sleep as the forepeak cabin is like trying to sleep in a roller coaster.

Our ETA for Cartagena is Sunday morning.  I have also banned J from fishing as it is so rough, slowing down and turning up into wind in this would not be good.  J chatted with some of the other Blue Water Rally yachts on the radio most of which havve arrived in Bonaire, not many of them are going to Cartagena as there is a slight worry about pirates near the entrance.  We do know of one other yacht, not a BWR yacht, ahead of us who is also going there, so long as we enter in daylight and a different, busier channel we should be alright.  It is, we are told, a city well worth seeing.