Los Testigos to Margarita New Year's Eve
Sarah Grace goes to sea
Chris Yerbury and Sophy White
Mon 1 Jan 2007 17:42
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From Los Testigos to
Polomar, Margarita 31st December 2006
Finally craving something a
little more exciting than dune walking and swimming, we set sail from our
peaceful anchorage in Los Testigos for the metropolis of Polomar, in Margarita
around fifty miles downwind, or West of us. Margarita is the
equivalent of Blackpool on the Isle of Wight, a buzzing holiday island fifteen
miles off the mainland of Venezuela.
Bye Bye
Testigos:
  On Passage:
 Hello Polomar!
  Happy New Year
Everybody!
We went ashore at Polomar
after we arrived on new year's eve, and joined the usual motley crew of die hard
cruisers. There was a 'Pot-Luck' where everybody brings some food
and shares it. We did extremely well, taking a bowl of pasta, and scoffing
loads of delicious salads and dips. VEGETABLES! Three cheers, as we
have had very few in the last few days. Our stay in Testigos was meant to
be four days, but ended up being ten days, so stores are at an all time
low. We didn't stock up more before we left as food in Venezuela is meant
to be mega cheap. Sadly shops were shut last night, and today, so it's
pasta until tomorrow. We all crashed out way before midnight, but
were woken up by new year's mayhem, thousands of bangers and fireworks and horns
and flares blasting away.
Mimi says: 'The fireworks
were like BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!'
Otti says: 'It was
wicked because all the fireworks were going crazy!!'
 Kid's dens on deck, New
Year's Day.
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