Day 330, Year 5 Nosy Sakatia to Hell-ville
Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Weather: Another Beautiful, Sunny Day
Latitude: 13 24.419 S
Longitude: 048 17.077 E
Location: Hell-ville, Nosy Be, NW Madagascar
I guess I could have named the log “Heaven to Hell” but actually Hell-ville has not lived up to its name. And let’s hope it stays that way until we are out of here! I spent my morning giving Brazil another look after getting an email from our son-in-law this morning. Evidently when you fly to Brazil from the United States you have to fly into Sao Paulo which is south of Rio de Janeiro and hundreds of miles south from where we had planned to land. Brazil is a big country. The cost of flying internally is not so bad, but it is the long number of hours of flying with two small children that is so hard. And flying out to Fernandez de Noronha looks to be just TOO expensive. So I researched the Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro area and found that it is probably Brazil’s best cruising grounds and has some gorgeous beaches as well. The problem for us is getting there. It is so far south that we would have to sail north from Cape Town and then south again to get there in order to stay inside the trade wind belt So the research continues.
Mark went to town with Ed and Lynne this afternoon to do a fuel run and I stayed here working on those photos. It is a never ending job. Tomorrow is a provisioning day. We will do the food shopping for the next month (hopefully we will be in South Africa by the end of October) and on Thursday start the formalities of checking out of the country. We will hopefully be back at Sakatia for a Full Moon Party on Thursday night, John’s birthday party on Sunday, and then head south on Monday morning. At least that’s the plan right now.
