As we noted on our Position Report, we took an easy hop from Coffin Island over to Boca del Infierno. Coffin Island was magnificent !! Beautiful, spotless, and had a great beach which we fully enjoyed. But before beaching, THE CREW hiked up the "mountain" to view the lighthouse, and take in the scenery. We did the couple of mile hike between 11:30 am and 1 pm....NEW RULE...no hiking, especially up a mountain, in the middle of the day !!! We have some great pictures which we will post when we have internet. At the beach, we all jumped into the water to cool off....we soaked for nearly an hour. Afterwards, we enjoyed some coldies, hung out, and had a nice dinner as some cooling showers rolled through just around dinner time. This is a must stop place for cruisers.
As for B del Infierno, it is an area of mangrove covered barrier islands near Salinas, PR. We are tucked up behind one of the islands to get out of the trade winds which are really humming today. We left at 6 am and arrived here around 9:30 just as the winds started kicking in.....
We will spend the day here, and hopefully we can do some exploring in the dinghy. Right now, it is so breezy, we would get soaked riding around in the dinghy....if getting soaked in 88 degree water is all that bad !! We are hoping to get outta here around 3 am and head directly for the Spanish Virgin Islands. We all are really pumped up about getting to the Virgins, especially the Spanish Virgins as they are not "discovered" by cruise ships, tour operators, and the condo commando crowd (i.e. ugly American tourists with matching belts and shoes....) Our first stop will be the island of Viequez; which is about 10 miles east of Puerto Rico. Parts of Viequez have not been opened to the public for the past 100 years, as the Navy used it for practicing beach assaults, and ordinance training. The Navy is out (Thanks, Mr. Clinton) and it is now open; so, we will be spending the remaining time Mike has here exploring the south side of Viequez.....lobsters (nicknamed bugs) look out...the bug killer (Orkin Man Dave) is coming to town.....
Finally, Mike is re-spooling the fishing rod.... We got a hit this morning....and whatever it was, it was HUGE....the fish took all the line off of the reel in seconds, and then broke the line as the end was tied to the reel. Another dinner that got away.....next time. (Seriously, I have to get a short, sturdy pole with a very heavy duty reel for the size of the fish here....my Long Island Sound special is clearly not up to the task. And I thought I was getting a heavy duty rig when I purchased it in a specialty fishing shop in Connecticut. Maybe by New England standards what I was sold was "heavy duty", but NOT by Caribe standards...whimpy, whimpy, whimpy !! Trudie's Schmano reel (purchased at the same specialty shop) was already blown apart when we hooked the blue marlin....the bale just disintegrated. Getting sick of singing the blue marlin blues !! Hey, brother-in-law Greg...any suggestions on a Penn Reel ??
THE NOW HUNGRY CREW
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