Ashore on Boa Vista Jan 18,09
Just got back aboard ship after a very nice day ashore on Boa Vista, cape Verde.
John and Spencer and I walked about 3 miles down the magnificent beach here past one of the fanciest resort I have ever seen. The place even has a restaurant shaped like a giant crab.
They also have grumpy looking guards at the gates. 
It is afterall an all inclusive place so we can’t have any riffraff wandering through can we.
Just past this place was a geocache that John had the coordinates for, one of two on Boa Vista the other was 60km away. The geocache was in the ruins of a pottery factory which looked quite romantic half covered in sand dunes.
We then took a cab back into Sel Rei as the thought of walking back along that beach into the teeth of the force 7 wind blowing across the and dunes.
Once back in town we had a nice lunch at a pizzaria in the town square, that didn’t have pizza even though most of menu was pizzas of various sorts. Then we went to a resort that had wifi, the one I had found before actually, and did all my emailing and blog updates.
The trip back to the ship started with a splash. Just as we were loading up the skiff got turned broadside to the beach and got a wave broadside. We were using an anchor to hold th bow aimed into the waves and it came off the bottom. Once underway the ride back was pretty dry so it looks like the wind may be moderating a bit.
Tomorrow we leave for Sao Vincente and the town of Mindelo. This town is much larger and should have more “amenities”. The passage should take two days.
Thanks for reading.
KJ