Alter do Chao FROM 3 April - Posted Late
Suzie Too - Western Caribbean
David & Suzanne Chappell
Mon 26 Apr 2010 21:07
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Finally we have stopped and have a week to chill -
with a beach and Coca Cola water that of course is not salty - everyone is
looking forward to having a rest. I downloaded some images from the cameras
today and cannot believe the places we have been, the things we have done, what
we have seen and the experiences of a lifetime all in a few months - Wow
doesn't even come close Now today 3 April Lisa has just left and we will
miss her, but also be good to get our own space again, and tomorrow 4
April is just 2 weeks left and I know we are all going to be in absolute
floods of tears - all the grown men blubbing - very embarrassing.
Our friends on Maupiti (Jean Marc is in Jimmy
Cornell's book "A Passion for Sailing" as they live in the same village and have
sailed the Pacific together), told you I am sailing in prestigious company, said
their friends did the RIDS 4 years ago and nothing has come even close since -
not even sailing in the Caribbean and now it seems to have gone by in a flash
and suddenly will be over.
We have had problems with boat systems, but have
overcome them all - although the Balmar alternator is still off line and have no
plans yet after 19 April when we are escorted by Sao Jao and the armed police
safely from the Amazon, then a left turn to French Guyana and the Arianne Space
Centre. From there a few days in Paramaribo in Surinam and then up to
Trinidad and who knows where from there - we don't.
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