Monday, March 12, 2007

Fajardo, PR

[Kevin's Post]We left Culebra this morning to head back over to mainland Puerto Rico where we had a slip reservation at one of the Fajardo marinas.  We've been plowing straight into the wind and waves for the past several weeks.  Every single day we have seen strong winds out of the east (no surprise there, it is the tradewinds) generally 15-20 knots.  So we were actually looking forward to the day when we would get to turn around and sail (gasp!) downwind.  Today was supposed to be that day as we had to go about 20 miles west back to Fajardo.  As luck would have it, today there was no wind at all.  So we ended up motoring the whole way back to Fajardo.


Iguanas are like pigeons here, they are everywhere.  They are on the docks, in the trees, in the bushes, in the water.  It is amazing.  And they are huge, some of them are 4' from head to tail.  If you walk by one of them on the dock, they jump into the water and swim like you wouldn't believe. I didn't even know they could swim.  But they don't dog-paddle like you might think, they swim down like a fish and disappear.  I don't know how long they can stay under, but we saw several dive in and we didn't see any of them come back up.  I'm not sure how far they can jump, but we're keeping the dock lines extra long and hoping they aren't good at tightrope walking. 


Where we are:
Location=Villa Marina - Fajardo, PR
Lat=18 20.574
Lon=65 38.207


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