Isla Espiritu Santo......Las Perlas Islands

Yesterday we left Contadora and headed south through the Las Perlas to a lovely anchorage between Isla del Rey and Isla Espiritu Santo. The islands are beautiful and covered with large trees. It is beautifully quiet here with only four other boats. As we are close to the islands we hear all the birds calling. As the evening closed in the birds slowly went to sleep, all the night life got going. There is an owl that stays up and we heard him clearly all evening. The fish around the boat were lighting up the water around us because of all the phosphorescence in the water. It was beautiful to just sit on deck and take it all in. The sail down was more of a motor down as the wind was very light. The water was a dirty brown colour and the only thing that we could think of was that it could be an algae bloom as there are no major rivers that flow into the sea here. No fish this trip but with the colour of the water that was no surprise. We will spend a day or two here and then will move on south around to the bottom of Isla del Rey. Hopefully the water will be cleaner down there as we need to make some water. Yesterday we had the engine on for 4-5 hours and only made about 20 litres before we sailed into the dirty water. We can generally make 45 litres an hour. So today we will dinghy around the islands and see what we can find. At the moment we are waiting to get going to Galapagos but there is little to no wind for the next week. Some boats are tired of waiting and have decided to go on, but they will be heading into a light wind on the nose and very little promise of any decent wind. The problem with this is that one tends to use up all your diesel and replacing it at the Galapagos islands is costly...like everything else there!
Well that's it for now from these lovely islands... till we write again.

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