Laguna Grande, Golfo de Cariaco

Cruising is: sitting in the captain's seat
Enjoying the tropical summer heat,
In one hand holding an ice cold beer
The other on the wheel to steer,
Captain Sid leans over kissing his wife,
Saying "isn't this a good life"

Here we are again in probably the prettiest anchorage along the Venezuelan Mainland Laguna Grande, well protected and just so colorful and when Maxine the wind generator shuts up for just a couple of minutes it's just quite and peaceful, the only thing you hear is the chirping of cicadas, frolicking birds, the squawk of herons, the splashing of small fish somersaulting out of the water, the ripple of water gently slapping the dinghy, the wind starting Maxine to run again and a "pissssst" -- "pissssst"
- "smack" -- "smack" -- "pissssst"……. Sid sure is keeping very busy here, in one hand he has a fly swatter, in the other a can of bug spray, "pissst" -- "smack", and then he has to think about which one to set down for a couple of seconds to pick up his cocktail and take a sip before continuing the battle with the flies. Don't know what it is with this place, sometimes we're here there are no flies at all and other times sooooooo many. Well, it keeps Sid busy LOL.
We left Coche at 3 AM, the wind was blowing a steady 12 knots and a 1 foot swell with a one knot current pushed us towards the Araya Peninsula, of course with the motor running (to make water and pump up the batteries) and the jib out. The reason we leave this early is to be able to reach Laguna Grande before noon as around that time the wind starts blowing 20 to 25 knots and sends a long fetch of choppy waves towards the entrance of the Golfo de Cariaco making it rough for us to head right into
it. We arrived just a little past 11 am and twenty minutes later the wind started to blow, wow just on time again. At the moment there are several tropical waves in the Caribbean, with lots of clouds and showers. According to Eric we should be having rain right now. What we see is the beautiful mirror image of the blue sky on top of the water surrounded by the colorful red, white and brown hills. Hope it stays this way. We will let the next wave go buy before we venture further up into the Golfo.