Cora do Avião/Cabanga Yacht Club Receife
Dawnbreaker
Lars Alfredson
Thu 6 Jan 2011 13:13
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6th January pos 08:04.77S 34:53.41W
Today started very nice. Thomas made us a fabulous
breakfast with sugar melon to start, french toast with banana's and coffee and
juice.
Quite something first thing in the morning,
we're not really used to so much so early. The day was sunny but with a lovely
breeze blowing
into the bay between the two islands.
After breakfast we decided to go ashore on to Cora
do Avião Island. The tide was out and we could see the sand banks for miles
around.
There were alot of people over the other side of
the island and they seemed to be picking up something in the sand.
 
The beginning of the
sandbank
My new motor boat!
Lars and Thomas went to have a loook while I just
looked around for shells and stones. They came back and told me that
everyone was collecting
small shells. There was this litte old lady that
must of been in her seventies sitting in a puddle collecting her shells to sell
at the market.
They said that a man collected around 25 kgs of the
inside of the shells peer day to sell later, that's an awful lot of shells
collected every day,
 The lady that's over seventy washing her
shells This is
what the shells look like
When we finished our walk we went to one of the
small restaurants and ordered our lunch for 13.00. They showed us some fish that
had been caught that morning and we chose our lunch
to be served with salad, beans, rice, chips from a casava
root and flour from
the casava root which is very popular
here.
  Everyone's boat is beached until the tide
comes in The pescada/middle fish
ended up as our lunch
Cheers, just waiting for lunch
Lars and Thomas dropped me back at the boat around
14.00 and they went over to look at Fort Orange. It was closed so
we decided to leave if we wanted to get to Recife
before dark. Departure was 14.45 pm.
 
Fort
Orange The
enterance to Fort Orange
Just before we arrived at the mouth of Recife
enterance it started to rain. When it rains here it's not just little rain
drops,
it chucks it down and it's hard to see anything
ahead. The waterway to Cabanga Yacht club is very long and by the time
when we were to turn into the last stretch it was
dark and we had to use a very powerful light for check for the green and
red line of poles that would guide us to the Yacht
club.
 
The waterway to Cabanga Yacht
Club The
view of Recife at night
Arrival 18.35pm. The Yacht club is right at
the end of the waterway, passed all the industrial area with all the larger
boats.
The wind was blowing and we found it hard to get
into the morring that was for us. In the end we ended up mooring on the
visitors pontoon and we would have to move in the
morning.
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