08/21/07 Back in Medregal

We had a wonderful dinner on board Dreamtime, marinated and grilled pork tenderloin that melted in the mouth, white rice, wonderful black beans and for dessert vanilla pudding with caramelized plantanes. When it comes to cooking Linda doesn't fool around each time she cooked we had a gourmet meal, so you can see we're not going hungry. While the pork tenderloin was grilling we watched flock by flock of scarlet ibis fly to their near by roost and took probably another 100 photos of them. As the sun
set the birds all disappeared in the mangroves, now and then one would screech while another answered but then it got just absolutely quite again. Early the next morning the whole bay was fogged in an unusual sight and it was pleasant if not almost cool when we sat in the cockpit sipping our fresh brewed morning coffee. The scarlet ibis have long left their roost, just pelicans, terns and a few skimmers were busy catching breakfast. Around 9 we picked Linda and Ed up and headed back up into the river.
The whole bay from the rain two nights ago was muddy and the color of a capuccino and the river was still flowing. Again just as we headed into the river scarlet ibis were flying from tree to tree, this time even more of them. This time they also let us come closer to the trees they were roosting in before taking off, giving us a change to take some more photos. We were amazed to find the path we had walked on just about one month ago at some places completely overgrown, also the rain had washed
away a lot of some of the path and left deep crevasses. We hiked around the shrimp farm and Ed venturing off found a bush with a bee hive that was definitely not the path we would follow. We hiked for a couple of hours headed back towards the boat and to the area I had found the scarlet feathers where we found some more. Back on the boat we had lunch then pulled anchor and got underway for Medregal. Pretty much at the same time we left the wind started blowing right out of the west we were headed
too. Knowing that in westerlies the Medregal anchorage becomes uncomfortable we dropped anchor in front of Guacarapo where it was calm but breezy. Salacia never made it up the river and so we had them and Dreamtime over for cocktail on Paradise so that the two boats finally could meet. We had great time and found out some more good info about Venezuelan anchorages Salacia shared. Then it was saying goodbye as Salacia is spending hurricane season here, we have about 10 more days before we need to
be back in Puerto La Cruz. Today around 10 we pulled anchor once more and motored the 5 miles to Medregal. The sky had some light clouds which one was reflecting the sun with all the rainbow colors, just beautiful. The air was clear and we could see mountain tops we usually can't see including the far islands of Mochima National Park. We should be here for a couple of days enjoying the beautiful Resort with pool and wonderful dinners then head slowly back towards PLC.